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Image of Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Vanity
Image of Criss Jami
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
- Criss Jami
Collection: Vanity
Image of Mark Duplass
I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.
- Mark Duplass
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Collection: Vanity
Image of Marcus Aurelius
After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Vanity
Image of Marcus Aurelius
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Vanity
Image of William Hazlitt
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.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Collection: Vanity
Image of Kedar Joshi
The worst of lusts is vanity.
- Kedar Joshi
Collection: Vanity
Image of Joseph Hall
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
- Joseph Hall
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jane Austen
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Vanity
Image of Abraham Joshua Heschel
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?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Collection: Vanity
Image of William Hazlitt
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.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Vanity
Image of Arthur Helps
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.
- Arthur Helps
Collection: Vanity
Image of Tom Hardy
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.
- Tom Hardy
Collection: Vanity
Image of Homer
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
- Homer
Collection: Vanity
Image of Berthold Auerbach
The vain being is the really solitary being.
- Berthold Auerbach
Collection: Vanity
Image of Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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.
- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
Collection: Vanity
Image of Saint Augustine
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.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Vanity
Image of William Hazlitt
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Vanity
Image of William Hazlitt
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Vanity
Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas Harris
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
- Thomas Harris
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
- Jane Austen
Collection: Vanity
Image of Eric Hoffer
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.
- Eric Hoffer
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jack Kerouac
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.
- Jack Kerouac
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Thomas a Kempis
All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.
- Thomas a Kempis
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Samuel Johnson
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Vanity
Image of Aldous Huxley
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Vanity
Image of William James
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.
- William James
Collection: Vanity
Image of Joseph Joubert
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
- Joseph Joubert
Collection: Vanity
Image of Helen Keller
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.
- Helen Keller
Collection: Vanity
Image of Jeff Lindsay
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.
- Jeff Lindsay
Collection: Vanity
Image of Lisa Kleypas
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Vanity
Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Collection: Vanity
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Vanity
Image of Johann Kaspar Lavater
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Collection: Vanity
Image of Dennis Lehane
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.
- Dennis Lehane
Collection: Vanity
Image of Hugh Laurie
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.
- Hugh Laurie
Collection: Vanity
Image of Florence King
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.
- Florence King
Collection: Vanity
Image of Norm MacDonald
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
- Norm MacDonald
Collection: Vanity
Image of Norman Mailer
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Vanity
Image of John Adams
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.
- John Adams
Collection: Vanity