“ It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
“ Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
“ Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
“ Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity — So it be new, there's no respect how vile — That is not quickly buzzed into his ears? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Elizabeth Smart- Copy
“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
“ It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
“ Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
“ 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"! ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
“ Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
“ It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
“ There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. ”
- George Washington- Copy
“ Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
“ To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
“ A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
“ Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
“ Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
“ Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
“ That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity — it's self-liking. Your face is always on display. ”
- Estee Lauder- Copy
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