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65 Vanity Quotes

And not a vanity is given in vain.

Alexander Pope Quotes , Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 290)

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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)

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There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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.

Jane Austen Quotes

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

Al Pacino Quotes

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler Quotes

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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others

Proverb Quotes

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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

Muhammad Ali Quotes

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness

Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it

Mark Twain Quotes

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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Bible Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 14)

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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Bible Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 2)

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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Bible Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. LXII, v. 9)

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Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Bible Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 5)

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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity."

John Bunyan Quotes , Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)

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Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Robert Burns Quotes , Source: To a Louse

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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto VII, st. 6)

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Vanity, like murder, will out.

Hannah Parkhouse Cowley Quotes , Source: The Belle's Stratagem (act I, sc. 4)

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Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.

John Dryden Quotes , Source: Alexander's Feast (l. 66)

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Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes , Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. I, ch. X)

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How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!

John Gay Quotes , Source: The Barley-Mow and Dunghill (l. 1)

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Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes , Source: Iris, Her Book--The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (X)

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We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes , Source: Maximes (137)

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