Vanity Quotes

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Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more. — Walter Scott
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love… — Robert Southey
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… — William Butler Yeats
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either… — David Hume
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. — Richard Griffiths
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull… — Ezra Pound
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… — Jean de la Bruyere
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know… — Charles Simmons
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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… — Mary Wollstonecraft
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. — Jean de la Bruyere
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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… — Emanuel Lasker
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves… — Kanye West
There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is… — Lena Dunham
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick
You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free:… — Gustave Thibon

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