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

Vanity, Name, Nothing

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"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

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"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

"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Vanity, Beauty, Aging, Desire

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"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."

"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."

"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."