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Vanity Quotes by Jane Austen
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that…
- Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
- She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
- Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it…
- It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
- Vanity working on weak head, produces every sort of mischief
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 and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle
- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce
- The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or… — Iris Murdoch
- Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld