Quotes on vanity
Vanity is the quicksand of reason
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George Sand Quotes
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
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Thomas Wolfe Quotes
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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Blaise Pascal Quotes
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
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John Adams Quotes
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
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Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
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Henri Bergson Quotes
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes