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.
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.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!
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.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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