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“And not a vanity is given in vain.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 290)
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
Anthony Powell Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
Henri Bergson Quotes |
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“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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