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«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
«The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our 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
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