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Vanity Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
- Vanity is often the unseen spur.
- Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly…
- All is vanity, nothing is fair.
- Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
More Vanity Quotes
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. — Jane Austen
- I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power. — Michele Bachmann
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.… — Van Wyck Brooks
- Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean de la Bruyere
- The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle