The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
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...
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Tennessee Williams
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Jane Austen
How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.
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Karen Quan
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.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
More Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
