A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If my beauty is my greatest weapon, vanity is the shield that protects me.” — Julie C. Dao Copy Share Image
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“Narcissism is, in a sense, the converse of an habitual sense of sin; it consists in the habit of admiring oneself and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not” — George Michael Copy Share Image
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“- You may know the value of turbans, but I know how far vanity can lead a man.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The hearing of masterworks of different epochs will speediest of all cure you of vanity and self-adoration.” — Schumann Robert Copy Share Image
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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