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

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego. — Rick McCallum

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." "If — Jane Austen

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

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

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. — Wallace D. Wattles

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

We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence! — Lydia Maria Francis Child

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have
others think of us. — Jane Austen

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. — Pope Francis

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

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. — Joanna Baillie

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. — Benjamin Franklin

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard De Mandeville

While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws. — Ron Brackin

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self. — Lionel Suggs

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. — Albert Camus

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. — Tom Ford

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. — Franz Grillparzer

Mans vanity transgresses death — Erik Christian Haugaard

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't. — Criss Jami

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? — Bantu Holomisa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. — Jane Austen

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton

Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One's vanity makes one vain. — Christian Hunt

Pride is love for one's deeds or achievements. Vanity is love for one's ... one, I guess. — Corey Taylor

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. — Friedrich Nietzsche

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit. — Criss Jami

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

A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride. — Munia Khan

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. — Kellie Elmore

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted. — Kate Elliott