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

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"I have a lot of vanity."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

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"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Fame is vanity's bait."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Vanity, Fame, Truth, Power

"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

"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Vanity, Pride

"Vain until the bitter end."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Vanity, End, Reality, Humanity

"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

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"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it."

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"Words of love, are works of love."

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"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

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"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men."

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"Public opinion is a second conscience."

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"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

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"I have a lot of vanity."

"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."

"Fame is vanity's bait."

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

"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."

"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

"Vain until the bitter end."

"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."

"Pride is the mother of arrogance."

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"False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis."

"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

"The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire."

"To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it."

"Words of love, are works of love."

"What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny."

"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

"He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men."

"Public opinion is a second conscience."

"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."