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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I have a lot of vanity.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.