#vanity

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

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#become #boyhood #men #must #our

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#feeling #form #i #might #physical

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#clothes #fashion #fine #folly #loving

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#chair #charlie #christmas #die #each

Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#stupidity #talks #vanity

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#obvious #perhaps #than #vainly #vanity

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