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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

Religion which is interested only in itself, in its prestige and success, in its institutions and ecclesiastical niceties, is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.