Vanity Quotes

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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the… — Helen Rowland
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should… — Christina Rossetti
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as… — Jean Rostand
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. — George Santayana
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. — William Shakespeare
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. — Wallace Shawn
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. — Jonathan Swift
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. — Taylor Swift

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