Quotes about Vanity

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He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by explo — C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negl — Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. — Gustave Flaubert, November
Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. — Jess C. Scott, Skins, Animal Stories
Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denia — Shannon L. Alder
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, t — Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, — Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Montaigne - Complete
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. — Oscar Wilde
Vanity is my favourite sin. — Al Pacino
Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple — G.M. Malliet
And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible. — Jennifer Clarvoe, Invisible Tender
There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self. — Lionel Suggs, Solecism
If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person — Vineet Raj Kapoor
The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked. — Thomas More
CARDINAL WOLSEYSo farewell to the little good you bear me.Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is the sta — William Shakespeare
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us — Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman
Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. — Troy Soos, Murder at Fenway Park
Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. aftera — Goals Rider