“Clichés so often befall vain people.” — Ann Beattie, Walks With Men
Tag: vanity
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“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1747-09-21)
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“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.” — Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
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“You can say of a man, He has lost his good spirits, his good temper, his love for others, his pride, his power of endurance, his hopefulness ; but who ever heard any one say of another, ‘He has lost his vanity.?’” — Arthur Helps, Brevia
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“Nothing deceives its possessor like vanity.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard
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“If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself — not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.” — Edward Abbey, “Shadows from the Big Woods,” The Journey Home
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“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.” — Jane Austen, Emma
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“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.” — Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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“People are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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