#vanity

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#done #haven #i #like #only

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #pride #recklessness #ruin #tyranny

Vanity, thy name is vampire. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#thomas-raith #vampires #vanity #vanity

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#personality #vanity #wisdom #vanity

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince? ↗

— Mandy Hubbard

#vanity

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#pride #vanity #vanity

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#overcoming-obstacles #pretend #pretentiousness #society #trust

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#narcissism #pretentiousness #vanity #vanity

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#love #love-story #musician #romance #vanity