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Tag Name "Vanity" (682)

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Only men of considerable vanity write books consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.
Francis Bacon
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Religion is the highest vanity.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
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There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.
George Eliot
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I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence I embrace the wit A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.
William Habington
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The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
George Eliot
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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
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When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
William Wilberforce
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
Thomas More
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Oscar Wilde
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....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
Alexander Pope
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We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!
Jane Porter
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I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
Mohsin Hamid
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Pride works _from within_ it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
Paulo Coelho
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Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.
Colley Cibber
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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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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
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