#vanity

I have a lot of vanity. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#lot #vanity

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. ↗

— Jason Patric

#blurred #cover #fair #great #important

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#because #changed #cry #dead #funny

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#thomas-raith #vanity #humor

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mark #pride #rather #than #vanity

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#dignity #enemy #our #vanity

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#impermanence #stars #universe #vanity #life

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#funny