#van

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

— Jack Gardner

#interest #self-absorbtion #vanity #ego

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#blue-bloods #fiction #martin-kingsley #van-alen-legacy #young-adult

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pride #vanity #curiosity

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#satire #vanity #satire

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#women #vanity

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vanity #vanity

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.
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— 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

I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#judgement

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