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Vanity Quotes by Edith Wharton
- No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
- Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer…
- 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.
More Vanity Quotes
- In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier
- They who prosper take on airs of vanity. — Aeschylus
- Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun
- What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace
- Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. — Arthur Guiterman
- A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon