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| Den sannaste tecken på okunnighet är fåfänga, högmod och arrogans. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Fåfänga, såsom mord, kommer ut. | Hannah Cowley |
| I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity | Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) |
| The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. | Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980) |
| Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. (Isaiah 57:13) | Bible |
| The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| The surest cure for vanity is loneliness | Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
| Religion is the highest vanity. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) |
| Vanity is the quicksand of reason | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. | Proverb |
| Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity | Diana Vreeland (1906-1989) |
| Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration. | Conan O'Brien |
| There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Mine is better than ours. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Vanity is a motive of immense potency. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. (Psalms 31:6) | Bible |
| He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity | Bible |
| Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| We speak little if not egged on by vanity | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The highest form of vanity is love of fame. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. | Vanna Bonta |
| A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |