#vanity

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#vanity #men

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#herd #influence #need #out #sake

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#beauty

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#common sense #easily #overtake #overtakes #sense

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#fashion #industry #levied #poor #rich

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#feed #happiness #ladies #love #pride

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#begin #bodies #body #care #cross

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#fault #nation #vanity #young #youth

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