Quotes about Vanity

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enou — Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was a — Alison Fell, The Element -inth in Greek
How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of — Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson, Macbeth
But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word ‘a — G.K. Chesterton, Five Types
One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and mone — Kakuzō Okakura
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. — George Michael
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be c — Pope Francis
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. — Andy Whitfield
The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the — Ezra Taft Benson
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. — Julian Casablancas
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. — Matthew Macfadyen
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean de la Bruyere