Lord Byron Quotes, Self Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

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

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity. The water of God's grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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