Vanity Quotes

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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Self praise is no praise at all. — Lord Byron
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on… — Michel de Montaigne
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with… — Max Beerbohm
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition is only vanity ennobled. — Jerome K. Jerome
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. — Elizabeth Taylor
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their… — Walter Savage Landor
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — Albert Camus
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. — Nicolas Chamfort
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;… — John Flavel

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