William Shakespeare Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Glasses Quotes

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

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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

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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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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

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

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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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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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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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