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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.
VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.
God's greatest thirst and his greatest sin is his ultimate vanity.
All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.
Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.