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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
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.
— Guillaume-Chretien De Lamoignon De Malesherbes
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.
— Troy Soos
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
— Amelie Nothomb
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
— Thomas Chalmers
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
— Richard Steele
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that ... for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
— Oscar Wilde
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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
There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.
— Josh Billings
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
— Honore De Balzac
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
One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
Fame is vanity's bait.
— Toba Beta
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
— Margaret Atwood
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
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
158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
— William Ellery Channing
To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
— George Eliot
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
— W. L. George
Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
— Baron De Montesquieu
One can never outlive one's vanity.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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
