#vanity

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#dishonesty #double-standards #morality #vice #vanity

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#funny

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. ↗

— Günter Grass

#vanity #wickedness #vanity

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#cell #chained #every #his #however

Clichés so often befall vain people. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#vain #vanity #men

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#men #model #photography #relationships #vanity

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters. ↗

— Dee Remy

#inspirational #paranormal-romance #romance #vanity #inspirational

Censorship is the height of vanity. ↗

— Martha Graham

#height #vanity

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#fact #greater #in fact #make #modesty