#vanity

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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!


Richard Brinsley Sheridan


#always #another #anything #damned #foolish

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.


James Madison


#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.


Jack Gardner


#interest #self-absorbtion #vanity #ego

I object to that object that’s made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.



Jarod Kintz


#clone #gold #object #shape #statue

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.


Nova Ren Suma


#vanity #vanity

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.


Oscar Wilde


#undervalued #vanity

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.


Vanna Bonta


#celebrity #hubris #quote #self-importance #vanity

She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?” “Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.” “Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.” “It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.


Meljean Brook


#beauty #colin #humor #savi #vanity

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.


Clive Anderson


#being #definitely #emotions #ever #favours

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.


Jane Austen


#different #different things #may #more #often