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Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.Collection: Vanity
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.Collection: Vanity
I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.Collection: Vanity
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.Collection: Vanity
After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.Collection: Vanity
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.Collection: Vanity
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.Collection: Vanity
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.Collection: Vanity
The worst of lusts is vanity.Collection: Vanity
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.Collection: Vanity
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.Collection: Vanity
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?Collection: Vanity
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.Collection: Vanity
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.Collection: Vanity
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.Collection: Vanity
How vain, without the merit, is the name.Collection: Vanity
The vain being is the really solitary being.Collection: Vanity
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.Collection: Vanity
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.Collection: Vanity
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.Collection: Vanity
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.Collection: Vanity
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.Collection: Vanity
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.Collection: Vanity
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.Collection: Vanity
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.Collection: Vanity
Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.Collection: Vanity
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.Collection: Vanity
All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.Collection: Vanity
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.Collection: Vanity
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.Collection: Vanity
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.Collection: Vanity
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.Collection: Vanity
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.Collection: Vanity
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.Collection: Vanity
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.Collection: Vanity
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.Collection: Vanity
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.Collection: Vanity
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.Collection: Vanity
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?Collection: Vanity
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.Collection: Vanity
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?Collection: Vanity
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.Collection: Vanity
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. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.Collection: Vanity
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.Collection: Vanity
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.Collection: Vanity
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.Collection: Vanity
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.Collection: Vanity
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.Collection: Vanity