vanity Quotes

“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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“The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“I have had my share of vanity; for as a young man I was admired by women; and as a statue I am praised by art critics.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“No wonder that God in His special grace subjects the ministers of the Gospel to all kinds of afflictions, otherwise they could not cope with this ugly beast called vainglory.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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