#vanity

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. ↗

— David Hewson

#threat #vanity #men

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #vanity #humor

No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#certain #conceited #countries #god #hate

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#any #fear #i #i think #simply

Vanity is my favourite sin. ↗

— Al Pacino

#sin #vanity

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#been #birth #definitely #did #diminished

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

#doth #forget #man #oft #teaching

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. ↗

— Barry Webster

#vanity #art