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That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of...

—William Kelly

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In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in...

—Alexander McCall Smith

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What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

—Criss Jami

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Forget plastic surgery. Enhance your beauty by getting those around you drunk.

—Jarod Kintz

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one’s self

—Fernando Pessoa

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A man’s vanity is more fragile that you might think. It’s easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

—Lisa Kleypas

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The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

—Jennifer Megan

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

—Paulo Coelho

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People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

—Vanna Bonta

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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

—Blaise Pascal

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How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

—Christopher Hitchens

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…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

—Idries Shah

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The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are...

—G.K. Chesterton

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I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

—Jeff Lindsay

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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

—Olaf Stapledon

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Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos–...

—Tennessee Williams

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In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine’s Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to...

—Alain de Botton

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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

—Dennis Lehane

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This life is full of vanity

—Fabcos Famas

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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 our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have...

—Jane Austen

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Ser vampiro es algo que menosprecia la vanidad

—Micky Bane

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Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

—José de

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall,Who’s fairest of them all?I’m Mona Lisa and She is plain,But the truth is – we all are Vain.

—Saru Singhal

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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

—William Makepeace

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I’ve loved many women…I’m not going to lie to you, but it never works…vanity always gets in the way.

—Cassandra Giovanni

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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

—Colum McCann

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But I begin to fancy you don’t like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)

—Emily Brontë

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I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.

—Kedar Joshi

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There’s something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he’s pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

—Nova Ren

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How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.

—Karen Quan

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Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don’t exist.

—Tiffany Madison

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You don’t know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you find yourself in danger of acquiring a facial scar.”On the plus side, it’s so situated as potentially to make me look tough and...

—Rodney Ulyate

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

—Blaise Pascal

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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

—David Nicholls

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The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

—Eric Hoffer

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But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘artificial.’ Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs,...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so...

—Jason Neville

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This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

—Jocelyn Murray

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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

—Joseph Conrad

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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you...

—Tennessee Williams

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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

—Alain de Botton

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If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...

—Jason Versey

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Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence–whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of...

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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All these handsome guys are the same. When they’re done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

—J.D. Salinger

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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

—Lionel Shriver

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Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.)A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of some quality or exaggerates the degree to which he possesses it, but...

—W.H. Auden

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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

—William Makepeace

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What a situation!’ cried Miss Squeers; ‘…What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?’ ‘Because they can’t help...

—Charles Dickens

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My intellect was my greatest vanity.

—Dan Simmons

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