Vanity Sayings As Well As Quotes


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A big tree attracts the gale.      
Chinese (on pride)
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All that glitters is non gold.      
Latin Proverb
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Clean your finger earlier yous betoken at my spots.      
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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Clothes don't brand the man.      
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Clouds that thunder, practice non e'er rain.      
Armenian (on vanity as well as arrogance)
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Empty vessels brand the most sound.      
John Lydgate (c.1370-1451)
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Every donkey loves to listen himself bray.      
English (on vanity as well as arrogance)
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His bark is worse than his bite.      
George Herbert (1593-1632)
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If mortal gives yous advice, it is inward his ain interest.      
Tunisian Proverb
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It is ameliorate to relish the cool breeze of others waving your flag, than to endure the exertion of doing it yourself.      
L.D. Seese (1992) cheers to J. Martin
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It is ameliorate to lite ane candle than to curse the darkness.      
Chinese Proverb
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No ane tin dismiss brand us experience inferior without our consent.      
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
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Nobody's perfect.      
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The truthful cat would swallow fish but would non larn her feet wet.      
Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
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The drum makes a peachy fuss because it is empty.      
Trinidadian (on vanity as well as arrogance)
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The wing on the H2O buffalo's dorsum thinks he is taller than the H2O buffalo.      
Tagalog (Filipino)(on vanity as well as arrogance)
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.      
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit.      
Nepalese (on vanity as well as arrogance)
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Never underestimate a homo who overestimates himself.     
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Cure yourself of the disease of caring how yous appear to others. Concern yourself only amongst how yous appear earlier God, delineate of piece of employment organisation yourself only amongst the thought that God may guide keep of you.     
Miguel de Unamuno
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There was never nevertheless fair adult woman but she made mouths inward a glass.
William Shakespeare
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They tell that hens practice cackle loudest when at that spot is naught vital inward the eggs they guide keep laid.
Ambrose Bierce
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.     
Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine
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We are as well as thus vain that nosotros fifty-fifty attention for the thought of those nosotros don't attention for.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
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There are no grades of vanity, at that spot are only grades of mightiness inward concealing it.     
Mark Twain
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Vanity is oftentimes the unseen spur.     
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is naught as well as thus agonizing to the fine peel of vanity every bit the application of a stone oil truth.     
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Vanity is as well as thus secure inward the pump of homo that everyone wants to endure admired - fifty-fifty I who write this, as well as yous who read this.
Blaise Pascal
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
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Vanity plays lurid tricks amongst our memory.
Joseph Conrad
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Nothing as well as thus soothes our vanity every bit a display of greater vanity inward others; it brand us vain, inward fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger
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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.     
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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One of the troubles almost vanity is that it grows amongst what it feeds on. The to a greater extent than yous are talked about, the to a greater extent than yous volition wishing to endure talked about.
Bertrand Russell
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We mean value nosotros are beingness interesting to others when nosotros are beingness interesting to ourselves.     
Jack Gardner
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The vanity of others runs counter to our sense of savour only when it runs counter to our vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vanity tin dismiss easily overtake wisdom. It unremarkably overtakes mutual sense.
Julian Casablancas
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I'm non the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only practice I knock 'em out, I choice the round.
Muhammad Ali
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their ain inventions best.     
Thomas More
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We tell lilliputian if non egged on past times vanity.     
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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It is hard to esteem a homo every bit highly every bit he would wish.
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
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We would rather speak sick of ourselves than non verbalize almost ourselves at all.     
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.     
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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No homo thinks at that spot is much ado almost naught when the ado is almost himself.
Anthony Trollope
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If at that spot is a unmarried lineament that is shared past times all peachy men, it is vanity. But I hateful past times 'vanity' only that they appreciate their ain worth. Without this sort of vanity they would non endure great. And amongst vanity alone, of course, a homo is nothing.
Yousef Karsh
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It is really queer, but non the less true, that people are to a greater extent than oftentimes than non quite every bit vain, or fifty-fifty to a greater extent than so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.     
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Mirrors are unsafe things. They tin dismiss only every bit easily tell us what nosotros don't similar every bit what nosotros do. Yet inward truth yous can't tell anything from a reflection, every bit a reflection is truly empty.     
Susie Staplehurst
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the outside self, on how ane looks instead of what ane is.     
Dennis Lehane, H5N1 Drink Before the War
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There are ii kinds of people inward this world: people who want to endure desired, as well as people who want to endure desired as well as thus much that they pretend they don't.
Rabih Alameddine
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Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us want the esteem of others.
Hugh Blair
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However anxious ane is to accomplish one's goal, ane tin dismiss excuse delays on the road when these are caused past times ovations.
Alexandre Dumas