Vanity Quotes

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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now,… — Kurt Vonnegut
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from… — Napoleon Bonaparte
How come it canâ€™t fly no better than a chicken?â€™ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Canâ€™t nobody… — Toni Morrison
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. — Abraham Lincoln
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others — Philip Roth
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company… — Thomas Paine
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those… — Bertrand Russell
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do… — Mitch Albom
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that… — Jane Austen
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Toni Morrison
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. — Don DeLillo
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of… — Cormac McCarthy
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer… — Edith Wharton
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who… — Anne Bronte

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