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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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“That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that
which wounds our own.
[Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est
qu'elle blesse la notre.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (389)
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“"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.”
Frederick Locker-Lampson Quotes Source: Vanity Fair
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“What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.”
Lord George Lyttleton Quotes Source: Advice to a Lady (l. 17)
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