#vanity

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#celebrity #hubris #quote #self-importance #vanity

She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?” “Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.” “Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.” “It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees. ↗

— Meljean Brook

#beauty #colin #humor #savi #vanity

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #definitely #ever #had #i

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ↗

— Jane Austen

#head #mischief #produces #sort #vanity

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #definitely #emotions #ever #favours

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#different #different things #may #more #often

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#better thing #pampered #perhaps #pride #starved

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

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#always #between #cannot #difference #far

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following