#vanity

Clichés so often befall vain people. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#vain #vanity #men

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#men #model #photography #relationships #vanity

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ↗

— Dave Blood

#control #energy #fool #get #how

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#chair #charlie #christmas #die #each

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much

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