#vanity

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#undervalued #vanity

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ↗

— Stella Blum

#claim #close #everybody #fashion #feelings

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

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

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

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

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). ↗

— Dawn Powell

#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#animal #animals #cruelties #cruelty #fashion