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

Mirror Mirror on the Wall,
Who's fairest of them all?
I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain,
But the truth is - we all are Vain. — Saru Singhal

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity. — Ingrid Newkirk

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. — Sorin Cerin

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. — John Doerr

Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves. — Tennessee Williams

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

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. — Bertrand Russell

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising. — Richard Whately

Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. — Leo Tolstoy

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield

No. There had been nothing more. Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity's — Oscar Wilde

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. — Mohsin Hamid

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

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough. — Jim Butcher

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. — Dennis Lehane

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

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy. — Jim Rash

Vanity's ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time. — David Eddings

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

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity — Robert Browning

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad. — Salvador Dali

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. — S.J Perelman

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

She loved her daughter, the blessing of a good book, a glass of wine after the day's wave of vanity had passed. — Tim Farrington

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. — Loni Anderson

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

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. — Maria Mitchell

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

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too. — Nova Ren Suma

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge. — Eraldo Banovac

The paths of greed and vanity will always lead to one's downfall. — Timothy Pina

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar. It's about dignity and self-esteem, which isn't quite the same as vanity. — Jeffrey Zaslow

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. — Joyce Carol Oates

One of the half-caste's few vices was a prodigious vanity. Yet this vanity was based on concrete results. — Arthur W. Upfield

Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game) — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great. — Hannah Gadsby

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it — Gwendoline Riley

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity. — Jorge Luis Borges

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. — Lord Mountbatten

I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity. — Mark Duplass

It's always the 'others' who are deceived. — Marty Rubin

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

After all, is a gentleman's library of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves anything more than a vanity? — Billy Collins

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. — Michel Foucault

I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey

... Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother. — David Mitchell

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. — Fernando Pessoa

What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are. — L.M. Montgomery

My dogs.
Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine — Bill Blass

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. — Oscar Wilde

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. — Jeremy London

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. — Christopher Fry

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. — Jerome K. Jerome

God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity. — Kedar Joshi

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

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander

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

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

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter. — Dr. Seuss

Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity. — Robert Jackson Bennett

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

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. — L.M. Montgomery

We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. — Jean-Marc Vallee

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. — George Washington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles

In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. — William Butler Yeats

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

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. — Bette Davis

Fame is vanity's bait. — Toba Beta

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

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. — Horace Walpole

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. — Pierce Brosnan

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. — Michael J. Fox

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. — Walter Savage Landor

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

One's vanity makes one vain. — Christian Hunt