Vanity Quotes

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And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at… — C.S. Lewis
I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not… — Alison Croggon
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousâ€”or more contemptibleâ€”than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… — Christopher Hitchens
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put… — Oscar Wilde
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,… — William Shakespeare
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. — Richard Paul Evans
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young… — Colum McCann
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity — Gilles Deleuze
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
â€¦the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima
Vanity, not love, has been my folly. — Jane Austen
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he… — Stacy Schiff
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.… — Oscar Wilde
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know… — William Hazlitt
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. — Aldous Huxley
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;… — Mark Twain

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