#vanity

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#ignorant #look #monuments #mortals #names

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#aging #better #getting #getting better #i

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#being #nothing #photographed #something #vanity

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#get #i #i think #male #male actors

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#i #lovely #married #romantic #terribly

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#believe #check #consummate #firmly #goodness

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hardest #just #our #precisely #pride

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy