#vanity

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#everywhere #feed #find #magnanimous #more

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#application #fine #nothing #rough #skin

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ↗

— George Eliot

#ease #ill #indifference #love #return

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cruel #how #know #manage #space

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

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#him #honor #justice #man #tells

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

— Nigella Lawson

#being #nothing #photographed #something #vanity