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Vanity Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
- One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting…
- Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
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- 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
- What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- 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
- Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips