Vanity Plate Penetration

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or plate:

“Our vanity wishes precisely what we do best to be regarded as what is most difficult to us. On the origin of many a morality.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
And when they’s company, don’t pass yer plate for pie again;
But, thinkin’ of the things yer’d like to see upon that tree,
Jes ‘fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be!”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)