My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ~By Victor Hugo ~
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. ~By Thomas Moore ~
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ~By George Savile ~
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. ~By Yousuf Karsh ~
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ~By Victor Hugo ~
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ~By Maria Mitchell ~
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone. ~By Gwen Stefani ~
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. ~By Robert Southey ~
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. ~By Elle Macpherson ~
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. ~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ~By Christina Rossetti ~
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice! ~By Shirley Knight ~
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ~By Julian Casablancas ~
You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity. ~By Stone Gossard ~
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ~By Samuel Butler ~
Censorship is the height of vanity. ~By Martha Graham ~
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. ~By Michael Zaslow ~
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~By Logan P. Smith ~
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. ~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. ~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ~By Leon Trotsky ~
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~By Eugene O'Neill ~
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ~By Natalie Portman ~
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. ~By Patricia Meyer Spacks ~
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ~By Gustav Mahler ~
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ~By Mark Twain ~
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. ~By George Santayana ~
If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to. ~By Theodore Bikel ~
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. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ~By James Madison ~
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth. ~By Rebecca H. Davis ~
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth. ~By Elizabeth Smart ~
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. ~By E. M. Forster ~
Vanity is as old as the mammoth. ~By W. L. George ~
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. ~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. ~By Diana Vreeland ~
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. ~By Jonathan Swift ~
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ~By Jane Austen ~
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity. ~By Nigella Lawson ~
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. ~By Wallace Shawn ~
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere. ~By Dave Blood ~
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. ~By Helen Rowland ~
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. ~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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. ~By Jane Austen ~
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. ~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ~By Abraham Cowley ~
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset. ~By Loni Anderson ~
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. ~By Peter Coyote ~
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. ~By Susanna Moodie ~
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). ~By Dawn Powell ~
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! ~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
I have a lot of vanity. ~By Jack Nicholson ~
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ~By Bob Considine ~
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. ~By Jackie Collins ~
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ~By Lou Reed ~
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ~By Joanna Baillie ~
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. ~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. ~By Jean Rostand ~
Vanity is my favourite sin. ~By Al Pacino ~
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ~By George Eliot ~
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ~By Louis Kronenberger ~
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. ~By Helen Hayes ~
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ~By Dylan Thomas ~
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ~By John Doerr ~
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. ~By Matthew Hale ~
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. ~By Franz Kafka ~
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does. ~By Keith Urban ~
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ~By Mary Wortley ~
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. ~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ~By Garrison Keillor ~
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~By Tom Wolfe ~
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. ~By Van Wyck Brooks ~
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. ~By George Sand ~
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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