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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

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 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

PSA62.9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. — Anonymous

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed — Dee Remy

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

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides — Anne Bronte

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

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

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

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

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

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways - not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways. — Thomas Hardy

He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity. — Don Lee

She's done things that mark her forever, as good as a brand on her forehead - and her denial of them would be fruitless. It would be vanity. — Alden Bell

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

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

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. — Dominick Dunne

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler

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

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh

EPH4.17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, — Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs. — Jasper Fforde

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

All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only. — Thomas A Kempis

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

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer

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

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. — Stendhal

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

Love, to her ear, was but a name,
Combin'd with vanity and shame;
Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
Bounded within the cloister wall. — Walter Scott

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

I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come out, it's empty and cold and soulless. — Michelle Rodriguez

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

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