| Author |
Quotes |
| Agnes Repplier | In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault! |
| Alexander Pope | And not a vanity is given in vain. |
| Alexander Pope | Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. |
| Anthony Powell | Self-love seems so often unrequited. |
| Anthony Trollope | No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. |
| Alexander Pope | And not a vanity is given in vain. |
| Alexander Pope | Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. |
| Bible | I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
| Bible | Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. |
| Bible | Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. |
| Bible | Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| Brenda Ueland | Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure. |
| Dexter Scott King | My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?" |
| Estee Lauder | Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display. |
| Eugene O'Neill | If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. |
| Garrison Keillor | Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. |
| Hannah Parkhouse Cowley | Vanity, like murder, will out. |
| Heinrich Heine | It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all. |
| Henri Bergson | The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. |
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