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 BierceMots clés 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 ConradMots clés vanity
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMots clés life vanity simplicity ego emile
The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
Thomas MoreMots clés 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 SpoffordMots clés vanity
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Vanna BontaMots clés 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 DostoevskyMots clés vanity fyodor-dostoyevsky notes-from-the-underground
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Clichés so often befall vain people.
Ann BeattieThe 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.
Mots clés evil tyranny vanity destruction pride ruin recklessness
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