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Vanity Quotes - Page 6

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.1

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.236, Penguin

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.714, Modern Library

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.111, Vintage

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.494, Courier Corporation

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).