#vanity

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#become #bizarre #crazy #face #fairy

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#crimes #less #men #than #their

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

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#cash #caught #celebrities #clubs #exciting

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 vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#chief #disclose #generally #known #motives

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice! ↗

— Shirley Knight

#annie #fair #how #i #magazine