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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean De La Bruyere
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
— Mason Cooley
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.
— Mason Cooley
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 can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
— Taylor Swift
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
— Helen Rowland
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
— Blaise Pascal
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
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
— Alexander Von Humboldt
So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
— Herman Melville
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
— John Lancaster Spalding
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
— George Michael
You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.
— Robert Ferrigno
If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.
— Agatha Christie
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
— P.T. Barnum
She stood and looked at James as if he was on clearance at Vanity, which was her favorite store at the moment.
— Aaron M. Patterson
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
— Walter J. Phillips
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
— Gustave Flaubert
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
— Francis Bacon
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
— Alfred De Musset
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
— Henri Bergson
Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
— Joe McMahon
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
— Dominick Dunne
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
— Jennifer Garner
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.
— Samael Aun Weor
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
— Seneca The Younger
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
— William Wilberforce
things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy
— Marcus Aurelius
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.
— Marcus Aurelius
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
— Diana Wynne Jones
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
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
— Lord Chesterfield
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
— Criss Jami
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
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
— Matthew Parris
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
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
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach
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
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
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
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
Vanity is found in the most unlikely places: in combination with kindness, and selflessness, and generosity.
— Ernesto Sabato
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Sharp lines draw too much attention to themselves, like vanity. And what's vanity but a series of sharp lines which have yet to be softened?
— Glenn Haybittle
A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
— Thomas Hardy
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
— Mark Twain
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
— Honore De Balzac
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
— D.H. Lawrence
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.
— Jean-Marc Vallee
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
— Elizabeth Smart
