"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

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"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."

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"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Vanity, Appearance, Joy, Materialism, Childhood

"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Vanity, Aging, Pride, Emotion

"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

"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."

Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet

Vanity, Evening, Trees

"Pride is the mother of arrogance."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Vanity, Pride, Truth, Arrogance, Power

"A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Vanity, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."

Jeremy London, American Actor

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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

"Vanity is man's love affair with himself."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Vanity, Self, Humanity, Pride

"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Vanity, Egotism, Pen

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"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"

Spiritual

"If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means-it may put me on my guard-at least, it may be something to live for."

Hope

"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."

Love

"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."

Ethics

"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."

Society

"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."

Literature

"They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town."

Philosophy

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

Man

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

Literature

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

Man