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Vanity  Quotes
The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

—Thomas More

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something...

—Oscar Wilde

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But a man’s beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman’s face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting...

—Albert Camus

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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

—Barry Webster

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

—George Eliot

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One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of “much cleverer” people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

—Frank Tallis

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Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.

—Kristian Goldmund

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But how can anyone put a bridle on man’s vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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Agatha: “If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I’ll have Reaper follow you home.”Sophie: “But then I can’t talk!

—Soman Chainani

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Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don’t like as what we do. Yet in truth you can’t tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty.

—Susie Staplehurst

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We all know you’re beautiful, Scott.

—Becca Fitzpatrick

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The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

—Dorothy Day

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Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful?Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it?Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it?Will you maintain distance from someone...

—Hanif Hassan

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

—Jane Austen

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All is vanity, and discovering it – the greatest vanity

—John Hobbes

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The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

—Jude Morgan

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Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

—Oscar Wilde

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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could...

—Toni Morrison

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Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

—Alison Fell

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Samo su sitne ptice šarene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

—Dobrica Ćosić

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In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

—David Hewson

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Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

—Jane Austen

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You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?) but if you are telling yourself that you are not perfect, aren’t you...

—Lionel Suggs

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It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they’ve never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.””Let...

—Ruta Sepetys

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the...

—Virginia Woolf

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However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

—Alexandre Dumas

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I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside; for their vanities they wear upon their hearts. Better to meet a person who wears their vanities out in the open where you...

—C. JoyBell C.

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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

—George Eliot

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We’ve already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of ‘coming out,’ of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks...

—John Derbyshire

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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.

—Margaret Atwood

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bobbybaird i’m a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

—Walter Kirn

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The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

—Shannon L. Alder

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If you keep trying to do it all at once in a big blast way, you’ll end up not doing it at all

—Constance Chuks

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

—J.B. Priestley

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Doesn’t matter how pretty you are. What’s important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear “no” often enough.

—Jim Butcher

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I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people’s vanity.

—Jorge Luis

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I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it...

—Peter S.

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The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

—Sophocles

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Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he...

—Brad Thor

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Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

—Criss Jami

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We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

—Jack Gardner

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You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

—Günter Grass

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At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

—Lionel Suggs

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Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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