“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”
Helen Rowland
“Marguerite indulged in the luxury dear to every woman's heart, of looking at the man she loved.”
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
“Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted”
Lord Chesterfield
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“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”
Blaise Pascal
“The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate.”
Miguel de Unamuno
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