You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose BierceStichwörter: women revenge vanity humorous
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
Joseph ConradStichwörter: vanity
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques RousseauStichwörter: life vanity simplicity ego emile
The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
Thomas MoreStichwörter: humility vanity mockery
I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship beauty, -and there's the fifth commandment, you know.
Harriet Prescott SpoffordStichwörter: vanity
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Vanna BontaStichwörter: vanity celebrity arrogance self-importance quote hubris
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: vanity fyodor-dostoyevsky notes-from-the-underground
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Clichés so often befall vain people.
Ann BeattieStichwörter: vanity clichés vain
The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.
Stichwörter: evil tyranny vanity destruction pride ruin recklessness
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