Vanity Quotes
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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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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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self – denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.
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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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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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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 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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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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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
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The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
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Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
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Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
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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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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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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.
