"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"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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"He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person."
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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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"I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both."
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"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation."
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"There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it."
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"Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites."
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"A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others."
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"It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman."
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"There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure."
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"Self praise is no praise at all."
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"O vanity, mislead no more!"
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"I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries."
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"And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
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"[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity."
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"Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely."
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"[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed."
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"The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him."
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"The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away."
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