639 Quotes About Vanity

  • Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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    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.

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  • Author Meljean Brook
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    She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. “Do you mind if I objectify you?”“Please do,” he said over his shoulder. “Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected.”“Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn’t be.”“It hardly matters, sweet; once they’ve come off, the attention isn’t likely to center on my absurdly handsome knees.

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  • Author Joseph Conrad
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    Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

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  • Author Edith Wharton
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    It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

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