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I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially. — Anna Faris

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased. — J. Tillman

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends. — Mason Cooley

Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Reality and Cash is King. Where is your King Plan? — Janna Hoiberg

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. — Andre Dubus

It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind. — Esther Dalseno

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. — Josh Billings

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. — Elizabeth Taylor

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. — Leo Tolstoy

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief. — Jane Austen

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. — John Lancaster Spalding

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries. — Pablo Picasso

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

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life — John Adams

But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity. — Paulo Coelho

It is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us — Jane Austen

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

What is vanity but the longing to survive? — Miguel De Unamuno

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled — Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. — Victor Hugo

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now. — L.M. Montgomery

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother. — Simon Munnery

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. — Thomas More

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

Why was he opening the doors to my vanity? I kept my tampons down there! He could see them! They were right at the front for easy accessibility! — Kristen Ashley

158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Clothes are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of repressed vanity; — Alex Myers

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson

Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning. — Polycarp

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. — Lord Chesterfield

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity. — Samuel Johnson

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco

Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure
because goodness makes you feel more alive. — Susan Neiman

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. — Dave Blood

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. — Jonathan Swift

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

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. — Bertrand Russell

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. — Myrtle Reed

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters. — Sarah Addison Allen

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain! — Dada Bhagwan

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life. — Thomas A Kempis

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both. — John D. MacDonald

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

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape. — Deepak Chopra

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! — Edwin Balmer

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. — David Frum

Fame is vanity's bait. — Toba Beta

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect. — Matthew Parris

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Beauty was all I'd ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me. — Heather Crews

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ... — Samuel Johnson

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence. — Aeschylus

Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life. — Matias Dalsgaard

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that. — Oscar Wilde

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. — Amelie Nothomb

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. — Troy Soos

The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me. — Eleanor Bron

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns! — Aulus Persius Flaccus

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

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself. — John R.W. Stott

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. — Arthur Schopenhauer

One can never outlive one's vanity. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Baron De Montesquieu

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity ... particularly male vanity. — Rafe Spall

Vanity is as old as the mammoth. — W. L. George

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self. — Francis Bacon

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 they should. — Jane Austen

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing

Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful. — Mark Helprin

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. — Lionel Shriver

To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Honor is decency without vanity. — Arthur Koestler

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

The ultimate philosophical truth is this: Without Christ, all is vanity even when it's easy; with Him, all is well even when it's hard. — Robert J. Morgan

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron D'Holbach

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

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. — Pliny The Elder

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

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence. — Warren Eyster