vanity Quotes

“the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”

― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

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“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“He who does not see the vanity of the world is himself very vain.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Vanity is becoming a nuisance; I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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