#vanity

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#feed #happiness #ladies #love #pride

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#begin #bodies #body #care #cross

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

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#actually #best #best work #care #comes

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

— Samuel Butler

#characters #ignorance #pride #truest #vanity

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

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#am #beautiful #cherish #else #enough

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

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#change #deeds #vanity #change