Vanity Quotes

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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You… — Abigail Spencer
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou… — Walter Raleigh
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who… — Alfred Nobel
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. — Hannibal
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world… — Richard Baxter
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog;… — Ingrid Newkirk
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are… — Blaise Pascal
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own… — Samuel Johnson
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. — Norm MacDonald
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It… — Brenda Ueland
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? — Seneca the Younger
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to… — Sophocles

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