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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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

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

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

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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

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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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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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

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