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Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes. - William Gilmore Simms Vanity is the foundation of the most ridiculous and contemptible vices--the vices of affectation and common lying. - Adam Smith (1) Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. - Alexander Smith There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you naturally retrench the little superfluities of garniture and equipage. The blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that nourishes them is destroyed. - Sir Richard Steele Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible. - Sir Richard Steele Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure. - Jonathan Swift To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. - Jonathan Swift Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. - Jonathan Swift All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. - William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity is often the unseen spur. - William Makepeace Thackeray There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.] - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues, Reflexions (LXVII) It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. - George Washington Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine." - John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Miller (l. 35) Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!" - Thomas Woodrow Wilson Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. - William Wordsworth, Sonnet--Sky--Prospect from the Plain of France Applause which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. - Edward Young Vain is the world, but only to the vain. - Edward Young Displaying page 6 of 6 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 [6]
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