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Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. - Joseph Addison All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. - Berthold Auerbach Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. - Francis Bacon A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe. - Honore de Balzac I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 14) Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 2) 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, Psalms (ch. LXII, v. 9) 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. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 5) It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." - John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I) Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. - Robert Burns, To a Louse 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. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto VII, st. 6) Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) Vanity, like murder, will out. - Hannah Parkhouse Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem (act I, sc. 4) Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. - John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (l. 66) Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Daniel Deronda (bk. I, ch. X) How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! - John Gay, The Barley-Mow and Dunghill (l. 1) Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Iris, Her Book--The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (X) How vain, without the merit, is the name. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (137) That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.] - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes (389) She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) "Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. - Frederick Locker-Lampson, Vanity Fair What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair. - Lord George Lyttleton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady (l. 17) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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