Vanity Quotes

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A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. — Lisa Kleypas
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters… — Fernando Pessoa
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. — Edith Wharton
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy
Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity,… — Christopher Isherwood
I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like… — Janet Evanovich
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.… — Dan Barker
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Are your eyelashes like your hair?â€ â€œYes. Theyâ€™re very beautifulâ€”want to see?â€ Her lips twitched. â€œVanity is a sin,Bluebell.â€ â€œWhen you have it, flaunt it,… — Nalini Singh
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. — William Shakespeare
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for… — Wayne Thomas Batson
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I… — Anne Bronte
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose… — Blaise Pascal
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity... — Dean Karnazes
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta

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