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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Votes: 6

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Votes: 6

Joseph Conrad

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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Votes: 6

Miguel de Cervantes

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Votes: 6

Jonathan Swift

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Votes: 6

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Votes: 6

Jane Austen

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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. Votes: 6

John Bunyan

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 6

George Eliot

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Votes: 6

Mark Twain

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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. Votes: 6

Blaise Pascal

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It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. Votes: 6

Elle Macpherson

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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 on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. Votes: 6

T. E. Lawrence

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Vanity is but the surface. Votes: 4

Blaise Pascal

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Votes: 4

Tom Wolfe

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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Votes: 4

Julian Casablancas

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Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. Votes: 4

Benjamin Franklin

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. Votes: 4

Mark Twain

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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. Votes: 4

Henri Bergson

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. Votes: 4

Ambrose Bierce

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Votes: 4

Samuel Johnson

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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. Votes: 4

Van Wyck Brooks

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Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. Votes: 4

Frederick Locker-Lampson

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. Votes: 4

Miguel de Unamuno

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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. Votes: 4

Jane Austen

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing. Votes: 4

Yousuf Karsh

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Vanity prevents improvement Votes: 3

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Vanity: my favorite sin. Votes: 3

Al Pacino

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Vanity is my favourite sin. Votes: 3

Al Pacino

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Vanity, thy name is vampire. Votes: 3

Jim Butcher

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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm. Votes: 3

Ann Radcliffe

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Vanity is often the unseen spur. Votes: 3

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. Votes: 3

George Sand

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Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. Votes: 3

John Milton

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Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. Votes: 3

Matthew McConaughey

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Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. Votes: 3

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Vanity is as old as the mammoth. Votes: 3

W. L. George

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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. Votes: 3

Karl Lagerfeld

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 3

Jane Austen

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Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Votes: 3

Bertrand Russell

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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. Votes: 3

Taylor Swift

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We really care about photography at Vanity Fair. Votes: 3

Graydon Carter

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We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.' Votes: 3

Graydon Carter

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Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. Votes: 3

Richard Steele

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Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Votes: 3

Jonathan Swift

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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver. Votes: 3

Andrew Davidson

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Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Votes: 3

Evelyn Waugh

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Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. Votes: 3

Ishmael Butler

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Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong Votes: 3

Sreesha Divakaran

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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. Votes: 3

David Eddings

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Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. Votes: 3

Laurence Sterne

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Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. Votes: 3

Otto von Bismarck

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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. Votes: 3

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. Votes: 3

Abraham Verghese

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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. Votes: 3

Baron de Montesquieu

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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Votes: 3

Alfred de Musset

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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything. Votes: 3

Taylor Swift

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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. Votes: 3

Blaise Pascal

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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. Votes: 3

Mignon McLaughlin

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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. Votes: 3

St. Jerome

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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. Votes: 3

Lady Gaga

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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Votes: 3

Eric Ries

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those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... Votes: 3

Eliza Haywood

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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. Votes: 3

Dominick Dunne

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. Votes: 3

Jane Austen

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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? Votes: 3

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. Votes: 3

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. Votes: 3

William E. Woodward

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Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 3

George Sand

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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Votes: 3

Jackie DeShannon

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. Votes: 3

Joseph Conrad

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? Votes: 3

Dexter Scott King

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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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My dogs.Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine" Votes: 3

Bill Blass

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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood

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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. Votes: 3

Margaret Mitchell

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My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Votes: 3

Richard Avedon

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Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Votes: 3

Jason Patric

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Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. Votes: 3

Samael Aun Weor

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Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds clichÃ© but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away. Votes: 3

Kristen Stewart

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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. Votes: 3

William Hazlitt

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. Votes: 3

Paulo Coelho

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Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. Votes: 3

Arthur Schopenhauer

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From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. Votes: 3

Bryan Burrough

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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood. Votes: 3

Bryan Burrough

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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! Votes: 3

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church. Votes: 3

Pope Francis

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Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes. Votes: 3

Ben Shapiro

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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Smart

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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you. Votes: 3

Tom Hardy

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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. Votes: 3

Dave Schulthise

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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. Votes: 3

Dave Blood

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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Votes: 3

Mohsin Hamid

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Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. Votes: 3

Michael J. Fox

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Votes: 2

Victor Hugo

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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. Votes: 2

Diana Vreeland

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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Votes: 2

Joanna Baillie

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Votes: 2

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. Votes: 2

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. Votes: 2

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Votes: 2

Jean Rostand

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. Votes: 2

DeWitt Clinton

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Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles. Votes: 2

Jean Simmons

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Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Votes: 2

Ellen G. White

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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. Votes: 2

Helen Rowland

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Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. Votes: 2

Julia Roberts

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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. Votes: 2

Helen Hayes

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Votes: 2

Nicolas Chamfort

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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick. Votes: 2

Laura Mennell

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Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it. Votes: 2

Henry B. Eyring

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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. Votes: 2

Pope Francis

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He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Votes: 2

Moshe Safdie

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At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin. Votes: 2

Nick Vujicic

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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be. Votes: 2

Alison Gopnik

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Religion is the highest vanity. Votes: 0

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Ambition is only vanity ennobled. Votes: 0

Jerome K. Jerome

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Purpose without virtue is vanity. Votes: 0

Fernando Torres

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Honor is decency without vanity. Votes: 0

Arthur Koestler

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I should have more vanity. Votes: 0

Amy Brenneman

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O vanity, mislead no more! Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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The worst of lusts is vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Censorship is the height of vanity. Votes: 0

Martha Graham

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The French courage proceeds from vanity Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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My intellect was my greatest vanity. Votes: 0

Dan Simmons

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One can never outlive one's vanity. Votes: 0

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Generosity is the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Chess is a matter of vanity. Votes: 0

Alexander Alekhine

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The mother of creation is vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Egotism is the tongue of vanity. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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I have a lot of vanity. Votes: 0

Jack Nicholson

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All is vanity, nothing is fair. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Through your rags I see your vanity. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Votes: 0

Ellen Glasgow

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. Votes: 0

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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True power and true politeness are above vanity. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. Votes: 0

Julie Burchill

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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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What is vanity but the longing to survive? Votes: 0

Miguel de Unamuno

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Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. Votes: 0

Pseudonymous Bosch

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And not a vanity is given in vain. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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You sold your soul to feed your vanity.. Votes: 0

The Scorpions

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moral vanity is the snare of good people. Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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The highest form of vanity is love of fame. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life. Votes: 0

Arthur Helps

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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. Votes: 0

Kanye West

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The offspring of riches Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity. Votes: 0

Rafe Spall

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The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions. Votes: 0

Helen Rowland

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The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. Votes: 0

Richard Paul Evans

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Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan

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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. Votes: 0

Leighton Meester

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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Votes: 0

Francis Quarles

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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. Votes: 0

Storm Jameson

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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All is vanity but to love God and serve Him. Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis

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The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. Votes: 0

Ivan KlÃma

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All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. Votes: 0

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Votes: 0

Anna Brownell Jameson

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds. Votes: 0

Phyllis Bottome

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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. Votes: 0

Shirley MacLaine

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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity... Votes: 0

Dean Karnazes

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Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0

Myrtle Reed

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Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. Votes: 0

David Steel

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Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0

Jess C. Scott

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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. Votes: 0

Hannibal

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My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. Votes: 0

Matthew Macfadyen

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Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. Votes: 0

Jess C Scott

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What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 0

Gustav Mahler

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I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. Votes: 0

Michele Bachmann

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Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. Votes: 0

Matthew Parris

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Votes: 0

Christopher Fry

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I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity. Votes: 0

Mark Duplass

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God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far. Votes: 0

Jay Baruchel

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Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, Votes: 0

Bernard de Mandeville

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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects. Votes: 0

Adam Smith

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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. Votes: 0

Neil Kinnock

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Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. Votes: 0

Jeremy Paxman

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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. Votes: 0

Mario Puzo

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires. Votes: 0

Lydia Sigourney

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Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. Votes: 0

Sorin Cerin

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. Votes: 0

William Graham Sumner

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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Votes: 0

Alice Thomas Ellis

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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. Votes: 0

Amelie Nothomb

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. Votes: 0

Thomas Chalmers

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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... without health to enjoy love, and love to enjoy wealth, is not all vanity? Votes: 0

Ellen Buckingham Mathews

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. Votes: 0

George Washington

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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. Votes: 0

Kenneth Clark

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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. Votes: 0

Nigella Lawson

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I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Votes: 0

Lord Mountbatten

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I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. Votes: 0

Anna Faris

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest. Votes: 0

Andrew Lincoln

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. Votes: 0

Andy Whitfield

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. Votes: 0

Bridget of Sweden

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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. Votes: 0

Thomas Moore

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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. Votes: 0

Rebecca Harding Davis

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Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? Votes: 0

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. Votes: 0

David Frum

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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Votes: 0

Wilkie Collins

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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it? Votes: 0

Carolyn Heilbrun

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If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. Votes: 0

Clive Anderson

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Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld Votes: 0

Gabriela Popa

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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. Votes: 0

Barry Webster

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I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity. Votes: 0

Red Skelton

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Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. Votes: 0

Miguel de Unamuno

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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips

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Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. Votes: 0

Margaret Thatcher

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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0

George Savile

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Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. Votes: 0

Nouman Ali Khan

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Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. Votes: 0

Michel Foucault

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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. Votes: 0

George Saville

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I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Votes: 0

Jeremy London

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One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. Votes: 0

Hugh Laurie

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That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Votes: 0

Mikhail Lermontov

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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. Votes: 0

John le Carre

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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. Votes: 0

George Michael

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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Votes: 0

Horace Walpole

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. Votes: 0

Heath L'Estrange

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0

Joel Kinnaman

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That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Votes: 0

Andre Dubus

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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us. Votes: 0

Norm MacDonald

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis

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We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. Votes: 0

Alexander von Humboldt

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity. Votes: 0

Anthea Turner

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It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. Votes: 0

Mireille Enos

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I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Votes: 0

Julio Cortazar

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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. Votes: 0

William Ellery Channing

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Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them. Votes: 0

Roger L'Estrange

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Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips

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Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Moss

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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Votes: 0

Bantu Holomisa

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Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. Votes: 0

Ned Rorem

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The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. Votes: 0

Luc de Clapiers

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Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues? Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. Votes: 0

Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. Votes: 0

Helen Rowland

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Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. Votes: 0

James Stephens

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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. Votes: 0

Baron d'Holbach

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it Votes: 0

Gwendoline Riley

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God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Votes: 0

Jerome K. Jerome

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Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. Votes: 0

Wallace D. Wattles

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Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. Votes: 0

Hilda Doolittle

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. Votes: 0

John Doerr

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. Votes: 0

Francis Quarles

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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Votes: 0

Walter Raleigh

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The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention. Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Votes: 0

Fernando Pessoa

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He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! Votes: 0

Edwin Balmer

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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. Votes: 0

John Berryman

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Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.... Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. Votes: 0

David Hewson

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. Votes: 0

Max Weber

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They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. Votes: 0

Robert Southey

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Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. Votes: 0

Tony Kushner

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He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. Votes: 0

Jack Newfield

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Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. Votes: 0

Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Votes: 0

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good. Votes: 0

Nancy Dunnan

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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices Votes: 0

Shana Alexander

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advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. Votes: 0

Ann Bridge

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My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. Votes: 0

Richard Griffiths

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....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. Votes: 0

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all Votes: 0

William Saroyan

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When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, "To die is gain.' Votes: 0

Matt Chandler

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After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. Votes: 0

Flannery O'Connor

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Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us. Votes: 0

Joseph Rickaby

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Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity. Votes: 0

Simon Munnery

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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. Votes: 0

William Saroyan

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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. Votes: 0

Jean-Marc Vallee

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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. Votes: 0

Alice James

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. Votes: 0

Geraldine Brooks

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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. Votes: 0

P. T. Barnum

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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. Votes: 0

Iris Murdoch

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I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. Votes: 0

Vernon Howard

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Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. Votes: 0

Stephen Young

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage. Votes: 0

Robert Lowell

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. Votes: 0

Matthew McConaughey

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We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. Votes: 0

Sorin Cerin

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Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... Votes: 0

Joe McMahon

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With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. Votes: 0

George Washington

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Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. Votes: 0

Michelle Pfeiffer

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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Votes: 0

Garrison Keillor

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Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity Votes: 0

Gilles Deleuze

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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. Votes: 0

Steve Coogan

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One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. Votes: 0

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

Louis Kronenberger

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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. Votes: 0

Salma Hayek

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...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. Votes: 0

Rufus Sewell

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Votes: 0

Louis Kronenberger

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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. Votes: 0

Donald G. Mitchell

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Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. Votes: 0

Brother Lawrence

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A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity. Votes: 0

Christina Stead

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Gibson Goode to Archy: "You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin. Votes: 0

Michael Chabon

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There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. Votes: 0

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Votes: 0

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. Votes: 0

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

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The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. Votes: 0

John Mason Brown

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It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother. Votes: 0

Simon Munnery

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? Votes: 0

Lou Reed

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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. Votes: 0

Pierce Brosnan

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. Votes: 0

Wallace Shawn

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We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor Votes: 0

Solange nicole

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Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. Votes: 0

Tiffany Madison

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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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. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give. Votes: 0

Charlotte Lennox

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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. Votes: 0

Theodore Bikel

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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away. Votes: 0

Ramakrishna

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When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality. Votes: 0

Louis Farrakhan

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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Votes: 0

Maria Mitchell

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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. Votes: 0

Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

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Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. Votes: 0

Lionel Shriver

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People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. Votes: 0

John Stott

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye! Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. Votes: 0

Polycarp

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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas-fils

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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Votes: 0

Matthew Hale

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. Votes: 0

Loni Anderson

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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. Votes: 0

Pliny the Elder

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There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets. Votes: 0

Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better." Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! Votes: 0

Frederic Lawrence Knowles

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. Votes: 0

Jennifer Garner

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Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego. Votes: 0

Rick McCallum

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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. Votes: 0

Maria Edgeworth

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I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit. Votes: 0

Thomas Haden Church

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I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. Votes: 0

Shane Black

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Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy. Votes: 0

Jim Rash

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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was. Votes: 0

Gary Numan

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I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable. Votes: 0

Cherie Lunghi

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It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. Votes: 0

Kate Elliott

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

Horace

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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

Iman Abdulmajid

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I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

Sting

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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Sara Coleridge

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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.

Walter Scott

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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

William Butler Yeats

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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Lord Chesterfield

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield

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Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

Elizabeth Benedict

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The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Eric Hoffer

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Jane Austen

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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Mother Teresa

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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.

Bertrand Russell

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God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Buchanan

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Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Camille Flammarion

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Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Evan Esar

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What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

Tom Ford

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Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

Dan Barker

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O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

Owen Feltham

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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

Deepak Chopra

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The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

Edmund Stoiber

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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

Anna Friel

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When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...

Leo Tolstoy

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Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

Louisa May Alcott

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When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

William Wilberforce

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Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

John Adams

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Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Nicolas Chamfort

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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Antonio Porchia

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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Edith Wharton

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I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

Gwen Stefani

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Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Moss Hart

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Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Michael Ayrton

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There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like "I deserved a better life than this.

Richard Siken

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I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

Simon Cowell

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When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

William Faulkner

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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

Jean de la Bruyere

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... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Benjamin Franklin

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We've been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history â that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

Fernando Pessoa

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If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

William James

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Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Arthur Lynch

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Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

Jeremy Collier

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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

Uma Thurman

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

Walter Scott

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They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.

Robert Southey

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Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal

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Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Samuel Johnson

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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

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I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Drew Barrymore

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This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

Francois Fenelon

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The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

Florence King

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[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

Pascal Mercier

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Vanity and narcissism " the compulsive need to be admired and praised " undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Rollo May

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A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon

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Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

Emanuel Lasker

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Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Florence Nightingale

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Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Jeremy Collier

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Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

Jane Porter

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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

Paul Gauguin

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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Thomas Paine

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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Abigail Spencer

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Ingrid Newkirk

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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

Margaret Halsey

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Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

Sir Fulke Greville

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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Stendhal

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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

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Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

John Cleese

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Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Laozi

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You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Stone Gossard

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Men always want to be a womanâs first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a manâs last romance.

Oscar Wilde

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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

Al Michaels

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Are your eyelashes like your hair?" "Yes. They're very beautiful"want to see?" Her lips twitched. "Vanity is a sin,Bluebell." "When you have it, flaunt it, I say." -Elena and Illium

Nalini Singh

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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

William Gilmore Simms

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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

William Hazlitt

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It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Tina Fey

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What people regard as vanityâleaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgottenâI regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Paulo Coelho

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A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Henry Ward Beecher

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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

King James I

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Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

William Butler Yeats

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Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

Justin Long

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Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Caleb Colton

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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Blaise Pascal

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What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

Danny Boyle

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The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace

James Madison

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Oscar Wilde

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False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Samuel Johnson

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I try to exercise, I try to think of it less as vanity and more like, how do I stay healthy from the inside out? I try to make my insides happy and healthy and I think that reflects on the outside.

Sutton Foster

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Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Frances Wright

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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

Blaise Pascal

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As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.

Gerard Way

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Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Theophrastus

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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

Nelson Mandela

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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Edmund Burke

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Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

William Law

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Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Frederick Marryat

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I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

Dylan Moran

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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Stephen Spender

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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

Brenda Ueland

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Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.

Paul Simon

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Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

James Franco

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'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

Frank Crowninshield

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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

Arthur Helps

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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Joubert

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Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

Samuel Johnson

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Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More

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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

John Berger

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Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

Saint John Chrysostom

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Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

Alec Douglas-Home

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Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.

Barbara Kruger

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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Seneca the Younger

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If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Eugene O'Neill

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I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

Barry Hannah

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False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

Jean de la Bruyere

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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Mark Twain

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Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.

Suzanne Curchod

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We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

Thomas F. Wilson

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Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

Astro Teller

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or his Son to save us. We thought that Hapi would give us immortality if we flattered his vanity by praying to him.

Alice Moore Hubbard

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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Anatole France

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There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

Lord Chesterfield

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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Thomas Paine

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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

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If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut

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The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

Colum McCann

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(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Margaret Thatcher

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Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Frederick the Great

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All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it's still one light.

Rumi

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I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for a magazine like Vanity Fair, even today, you're certainly expected to treat people like Peggy Siegal very deferentially.

Toby Young

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In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

Nicolas Winding Refn

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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

William Hazlitt

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Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

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Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.

Dennis Lehane

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Vanity of vanities"¦ all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is "success', the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

Jack Kerouac

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

Saint Augustine

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Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Walter Raleigh

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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Blaise Pascal

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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

William Cowper

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

David Foster Wallace

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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

Lord Chesterfield

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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.

William Gibson

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Veronica Roth

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We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Jane Austen

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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

Katherine Boo

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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

Mark Rippetoe

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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.

Huston Smith

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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

Bram Stoker

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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

Lord Chesterfield

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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

Friedrich Schiller

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I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.

Stephen Dobyns

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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

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Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

Henry Fielding

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So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

Samuel Johnson

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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Albert Einstein

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They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

Robert Southey

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mundus vult decipi'âthe world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Joseph Addison

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O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Henry Fielding

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Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Too much vanity (4 quotes)

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. Votes: 3 J. Tillman

Vanity And Pride (52 quotes)

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Too much vanity (4 quotes)

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