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“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld”
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”
“My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.”
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.”
“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.”
“We all know you're beautiful, Scott.”
“I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a bene...”
“But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince?”
“No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.”
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met hi...”
“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”
“I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.”
“You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.”
“So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors ons ago.”
“I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship be...”
“All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.”
