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Vanity

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

George Sand (1804-1876)

Religion is the highest vanity.

Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)

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

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Mine is better than ours.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverb

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity

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