Jane Austen Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Affection Quotes

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Vanity Quotes , May Quotes

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

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

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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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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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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Metrics Quotes

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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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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

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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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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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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Vanity Quotes