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Vanity Quotes (page 9)

Virginia Woolf quote: "Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit."
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Virginia Woolf
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz Mitch Albom
Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare. Louisa May Alcott
The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else. J. G. Ballard
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "All is vanity, nothing is fair."
All is vanity, nothing is fair. William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Austen quote: "pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what..."
pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in... Charles Dickens
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran. Lloyd Alexander
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog. George Byron
guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Toni Morrison
The tyrant is a child of Pride. Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong. He plummets to the dust of hope. Sophocles
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Voltaire
Petrarch quote: "Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the..."
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream. Petrarch
The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised. Julian Barnes
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart."
All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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