Vanity Quotes

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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… — Iris Murdoch
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. — Benjamin Franklin
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Joe McMahon
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
They who prosper take on airs of vanity. — Aeschylus
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere. — George Santayana
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what… — Jacques Barzun
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it. — Mark Twain
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. — Aesop
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. — Christopher Fry
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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt

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