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«There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.»
«There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Truth,
Vanity
| Keywords:
agonized, agonizing, application, rough, skin, vanity
«There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.»
Author: Helen Hayes
(Actress)
| About:
Christmas,
Vanity
| Keywords:
four-poster, needing, parting, poster
«People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.»
«There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.»
«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
«Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt»
«There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it»
«That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Vanity
| Keywords:
interchange, interchanging
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