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  • #1
    Ann Beattie
    “Clichés so often befall vain people.”
    Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

  • #2
    Jarod Kintz
    “I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #3
    Anthony Liccione
    “Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.”
    Anthony Liccione

  • #4
    Virginia Woolf
    “No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #5
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #6
    Anthony Liccione
    “If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.”
    Anthony Liccione

  • #7
    Tiffany Madison
    “Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.”
    Tiffany Madison

  • #8
    Sophocles
    “The tyrant is a child of Pride
    Who drinks from his sickening cup
    Recklessness and vanity,
    Until from his high crest headlong
    He plummets to the dust of hope.”
    Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

  • #9
    George Eliot
    “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
    George Eliot, Middlemarch

  • #11
    Lionel Shriver
    “I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #12
    Shannon L. Alder
    “True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #13
    Anthony de Mello
    “The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.”
    Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

  • #14
    Victoria Kann
    “I cried because I was so beautiful.”
    Victoria Kann, Pinkalicious

  • #15
    T. William Watts
    “Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”
    T. William Watts



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