Oscar Wilde Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Sin Quotes

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

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The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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

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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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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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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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

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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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