Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

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