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When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.