Jane Austen Quotes, Character Quotes, Vanity Quotes

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

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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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

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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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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

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

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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

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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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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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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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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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