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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Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 137)
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Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Quotes , Source: Reflexions (LXVII)
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Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me!
That I the Judge's bride might be!
He would dress me up in silks so fine,
And praise and toast me at his wine."
John Greenleaf Whittier
Quotes , Source: Maud Miller (l. 35)
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Sonnet--Sky--Prospect from the Plain of France
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!
Agnes Repplier
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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
James Boswell
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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Blaise Pascal
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.
Brenda Ueland
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor
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My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"
Dexter Scott King
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Van Wyck Brooks
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
Henri Bergson
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If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
Eugene O'Neill
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