#vanity

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

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

#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their

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

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#crimes #less #men #than #their

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 highest form of vanity is love of fame. ↗

— George Santayana

#form #highest #highest form #love #vanity

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

#aid #bind #completely #earth #life

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