#vanity

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

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I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

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I have a lot of vanity. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#lot #vanity

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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