Vanity Quotes

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Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty. — Ovid
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
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… — William Hazlitt
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. — Baruch Spinoza
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. — Bette Davis
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock
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
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his… — Charles Caleb Colton
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned… — Andre Gide
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. — Samuel Johnson
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never… — Margot Asquith
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
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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