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Letter "V" » Vanity
"How many saucy airs we meet,
From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!"
Author: John Gay
About: Vanity
"Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher,
What if a lovely and unsistered creature
Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,"
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
About: Vanity
"We say little if not egged on by vanity.
[Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]"
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Vanity
"That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that
which wounds our own.
[Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est
qu'elle blesse la notre.]"
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Vanity
"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair."
Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
About: Vanity
"What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair."
Author: Lord George Lyttleton
About: Vanity
"And not a vanity is given in vain."
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Vanity
"Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux."
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Vanity
"Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!"
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Vanity
"Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Vanity
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