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vanity
«The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
appeals, attract, gets, imagination, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, to a man, vanity
«All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.»
Author: T.E. Lawrence
(Intelligence officer)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
act, dangerous, dreamers, dusty, make it, minds, Night, open-eyed, open, opening night, Open Your Eyes, possible, recess, The Dreamers, The Wake, vanity, wake, waked, waking up, woken
«Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.»
«Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
at ease, ease, ill at ease, indifference, tenderness, vanity
«The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Arrogance,
Ignorance,
Pride,
Vanity
| Keywords:
arrogance, characters, Pride and, truest, vanity
«Vanity backbites more than Malice.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
backbite, backbites, backbiting, malice, vanity
«Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Vanity
| Keywords:
admired, secure, vanity
«Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.»
«The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
carcass, carcasses, The Shadow, vanity