Vanity proverbs

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◆ There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

- Jane Austen99

◆ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

- Lisa Kleypas99

◆ If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ I want to make something of myself. I believe it's called a statue.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

- William Makepeace Thackeray99

◆ Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

- Nova Ren Suma99

◆ Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

- Diana Wynne Jones99

◆ Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ I object to that object that's made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth

- Edward G Bulwer-Lytton98