Vanity Quotes

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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding… — Matthew Scully
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know… — Stephen Hunt
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him â€“ while men simply did not know him. — Gustave Flaubert
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after… — William Butler Yeats
I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. — Julio Cortazar
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a… — Jane Austen
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of… — Abigail Adams
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
Men always want to be a womanâ€™s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What… — Oscar Wilde
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it… — Leo Tolstoy
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to… — Emile M. Cioran
What people regard as vanityâ€”leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgottenâ€”I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. — Geraldine Brooks
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the… — Salman Rushdie
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respectâ€”you don't call a man… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and… — Pascal Mercier
Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. — Brother Lawrence
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old… — William Faulkner

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