#vanity

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#excuse #get #good #had #head

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ↗

— Lou Reed

#anything #art #artist #artwork #how

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. ↗

— George Michael

#business #crap #ego #pretend #self-satisfaction

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#feels #heart #long #love #ordinary

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#attract #gets #heart #him #his

The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ↗

— George Santayana

#form #highest #highest form #love #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