Vanity Quotes - Page 10

• Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

  Astro Teller

  Science, Intelligent, Winning

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• It is night,
  And it is vanity, and age
  Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
  The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

  Robert Lowell

  Fear, Heart, Night

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Sex, Men, Luxury

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

  Sarah Fielding

  Education, Self, Understanding

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.42

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• I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Wife, Firsts

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.75

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• Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

  Barón de Montesquieu

  Pride, Government, Dangerous

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.388, Library of Alexandria

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• Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

  Barón de Montesquieu

  Fashion, Art, Spring

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• Love, to her ear, was but a name,
  Combin'd with vanity and shame;
  Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
  Bounded within the cloister wall.

  Walter Scott

  Wall, Names, Joy

  Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion: Canto Ii. - The Convent”

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• Hay a quienes el sentido de la religión ha llegado en medio de la tormenta y la tempestad; hay a quienes ha convocado en medio de escenas de jolgorio y ociosa vanidad; hay también quienes han oído su "tranquila y pequeña voz" en medio del ocio rural y el plácido retiro. Pero tal vez el conocimiento que no hace errar se imprime con mayor frecuencia en la mente durante la temporada de aflicción.

  Walter Scott

  Retirement, Voice, Mind

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novelas, recopiladas]) (1842). "Novelas de Waverley. (Abbotsford ed.)", p.227

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• He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.

  Walter Scott

  Sorrow, Arguing, Deceitful

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.8097, e-artnow

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• A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

  Walter Scott

  And Love, Philanthropy, Arise

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). "The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations" (Las obras completas de Sir Walter Scott: con una biografía y sus últimas adiciones e ilustraciones).

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Names, Desire

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• La única forma segura de evitar estos males [vanidad y jactancia] es no hablar nunca de uno mismo. Pero cuando, históricamente, te veas obligado a mencionarte, procura no soltar ni una sola palabra que pueda interpretarse directa o indirectamente como una búsqueda de aplausos.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fishing, Evil, Care

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• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, People, Innocent

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Gratitude, Mind, Wish

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• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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• Las personas que son muy vanidosas suelen ser igualmente susceptibles; y las que sienten agudamente una cosa, sentirán así otra.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  People, Vain, Feels

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• Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Dolor, sufrimiento, debilidad

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• Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Names, Giving, Miserable

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). "El Breviario del Cínico: Máximas y anécdotas de Nicolás de Chamfort"

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• The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Littles, Sells

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). "El Breviario del Cínico: Máximas y anécdotas de Nicolás de Chamfort"

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Tongue, Egotism

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• For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Handsome, Imagine, Ill

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• Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

  Josh Billings

  Jobs, Passion, Vices

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• Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her proceedings, and proud of her immortal nature, she ought to derive everything from herself.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Tree, Proud, Ancient

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