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«Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.»
Author: Helen Rowland | About: Marriage | Keywords: anaesthetic, egotism, extracted, extracting, extracts, operation, vanity
«If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Bright Eyes, displayed, lashed, lashes, lashing, scarlet, vanity
«One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Trouble, Vanity | Keywords: feeds, talked, The Troubles, troubles, vanity
«One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: ascribed, ascribes, err, extreme, rarely, vanity
«Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: vanity, wound, wounded
«He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Beauty, Courage, Strength, Vice, Virtue | Keywords: ferocity, insolence, possessed, vanity, vices
«It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: dull, dumb, impertinence, perceptions, vanity
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: burden, desolation, past life, past times, sad, storm, subdued, subdues, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, swept, vanity
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity
«Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Criticism | Keywords: critic, expense, formidable, idleness, The name, vanity
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