Vanity Quotes

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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Walter Raleigh
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. — Wallace D. Wattles
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended? — Dan Barker
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which… — Charles Dickens
Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. — Mignon McLaughlin
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King
The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me. — Eleanor Bron
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. — Willa Cather
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You… — Henry Bromell
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson
Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity. — Alan Watts
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. — Polycarp
When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father… — Thomas Hooker
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In… — Michael Ayrton

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