Famous Quotes About Vanity By Reference

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

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3

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Robert Frost

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4

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin

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5

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Madame Swetchine

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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Iris Murdoch

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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

John Ruskin

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9

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

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10

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mark Twain

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11

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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12

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare

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13

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Ambrose Bierce

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14

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Max Beerbohm

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15

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

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17

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

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What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity

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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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!

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.