Vanity 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.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.
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There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
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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.
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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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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.
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The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.
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Vanity is but the surface.
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
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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.
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
