Vanity Quotes

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Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. — John Donne
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… — Louisa May Alcott
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity… — Samuel Johnson
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. — Mark Twain
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… — Blaise Pascal
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature… — Russell Kirk
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… — William Gibson
What is vanity but the longing to survive? — Miguel de Unamuno
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. — Alexander Pope
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal
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… — Uma Thurman
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling… — Dale Carnegie
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… — Nelson Mandela
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to… — John Calvin
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -… — Mark Twain
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… — King James I
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not take pleasure in… — Lorenzo Scupoli
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon it as unnecessary… — John of Kronstadt

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