Vanity Quotes

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But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. — Pseudonymous Bosch
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after… — Mark Helprin
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting â€œVanity,â€ thus morally… — John Berger
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero,… — Rachel Vincent
Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thereâ€™s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Itâ€™s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity.… — Dean Koontz
The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. — Colum McCann
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — George Saville
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of… — Edward Gibbon
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. — Stendhal
Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their… — Camille Flammarion
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy… — James Madison
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this… — Bertrand Russell
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion. — William Wilberforce
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the… — Richard Dawkins
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which… — Mary Wortley Montagu

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