Vanity Quotes
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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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But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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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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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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Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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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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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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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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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
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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.
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Vanity is but the surface.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
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A man who can laugh at himeself delivers all men from the burden of their vanity.
