"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."

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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Vanity, Name, Nothing

"Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Vanity, Religion, Pride, Conflict

"The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people's eyes or by looking deep within themselves."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Vanity, Crime, History, Spiritual, Appearance

"Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i can be notice as a wise person."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

Vanity, Sharing, Ego, Wisdom

"Visibility without Value is Vanity."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Vanity, Visibility, Values, Self-Worth

"It is vanity to chase the whirlwind."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Vanity, Pursuit, Meaning, Life

"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."

Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor

Vanity,

"Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."

George Eliot, British Author

Vanity, Fashion, Body, Shame

"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."

William R. Alger, American Writer

Vanity, Pearls

"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Vanity, Taste

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"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."

"Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i can be notice as a wise person."

"Visibility without Value is Vanity."

"It is vanity to chase the whirlwind."

"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."

"Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf."

"Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth."

"An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."

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"Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior."

"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

"The newest books are those that never grow old."

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own."

"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."

"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."

"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent."