Vanity - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65542<![CDATA[Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64659<![CDATA[I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64593<![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63621<![CDATA[Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60419<![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60420<![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60421<![CDATA[To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60414<![CDATA[Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60416<![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60417<![CDATA[Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60418<![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408<![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60409<![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410<![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411<![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412<![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405<![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60406<![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60407<![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402<![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403<![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404<![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60398<![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399<![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400<![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60401<![CDATA[The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60395<![CDATA[Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60396<![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397<![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392<![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60393<![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394<![CDATA[There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60388<![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389<![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60390<![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60391<![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60386<![CDATA[Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity (So it be new, there's no respect how vile) That is ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60387<![CDATA[And not a vanity is given in vain. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60384<![CDATA[Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60385<![CDATA[What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60383<![CDATA[We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60380<![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60381<![CDATA["Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60382<![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60378<![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60379<![CDATA[Vanity, like murder, will out. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60375<![CDATA[Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60376<![CDATA[Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60377<![CDATA[It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity." ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60372