Vanity Quotes

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I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I canâ€™t see what… — Christine Feehan
With regard to power, women donâ€™t have the vanity men have. They donâ€™t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give… — Jo Nesbo
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you… — Marissa Meyer
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. — Jeff Lindsay
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only… — John Fowles
Granuaile looked terminally depressed when she emerged from the bathroom with raven hair and, as a result rather Goth by accident. She didn't want to… — Kevin Hearne
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like â€œI… — Richard Siken
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. — Dejan Stojanovic
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession… — Margaret Mitchell
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. — Paulo Coelho
Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill outâ€”a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your… — Saul Bellow
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. — John le Carre
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or… — Albert Camus

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