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Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.
I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.
Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.