Lord Byron Quotes, Vanity Quotes

The French courage proceeds from vanity

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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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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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

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

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

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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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