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Asked the young chap quickly, flushing with vanity.
How do you know it was vanity, my dear?
All her femininity seemed to be concentrated, all her vanity centered, on her hair.
Whatever is born of vanity will end in vanity.
It was prompted by greed and vanity more than by a sense of danger.
Fitzgerald found some food for vanity in this news.
Zola, since vanity, like most other vices, is acquired, not inherent in our natures.
Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
And yet, was it vanity which was expressed in that face?
It was part of the fuel of his vanity that his audience had never yet had enough of him.
This vanity and presumption is now punished, and, I acknowledge, justly.
Hurt their vanity for a few days is the most a woman could do with any of them.
There is not another woman who would have denied herself that satisfaction of vanity.
A woman that can listen possesses one more attraction, because she flatters man's vanity.
This is also vanity and a striving after wind.
"I thought you had put that down to vanity."
It pleased his vanity to see how good an appetite I always had.
No man is so safe in seclusion as the one of large vanities and small ambitions.
All this appears to me little better than idle, restless vanity.
The vanity of man is rebuked by a visit to any old, neglected cemetery.
"I shall admit nothing that will increase your vanity."
And her creed gave her boldness far beyond the limit to which vanity would have led her.
He held in a knowing grip the strings of his patrons' vanity and taste.
I fear there is a great deal of vanity at the bottom of our manly passions.
It consoles my vanity for Louise's disdain, but not my heart.
His vanity suffered terribly under the first shock.
I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity.
My professional vanity isn't wounded, if that's what you're getting at.
There is no need to specify, when "All is vanity."
It was not vanity which made her think that the squire might grow to like her too much.
It is vanity to wish a long life, and to care little about a good life.
This he did with so much vanity, and so little discretion, that he lost many by it.
His vanity was dead with him; his tender love for her was dead too.
Well, vanity may inspire fine deeds in war and may advance him in the career of a soldier.
Gradually, owing to human vanity and a growing taste, pictures improved.
Hatred and bitterness, scorn or wounded vanity, passed into something gentler.
Nor would I willingly forget any of those things which administered to our vanity.
How seriously do they talk of the world and speak vanity!
I am punished for my vanity, mesdames et messieurs.
"I shall not fail," she answered confidently, though not in vanity.
He writes for vanity or a low purpose, and is not a lesser master, but he is untrue.
The wandering of the desire, this also is vanity.
Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity.
It is of too great moment to me for the petty vice of vanity to have any part in it.
"I can't conceive of her surrendering to the vanities," he said at last.
It was her popularity and my own vanity that I was in love with.
Speed on the fiercest trail was the dream of his vanity.
At first purely speculative and born of vanity, his love had now become sincere.
"I am at least willing to let you take charge of their vanity."
"And what are bubbles, I should be glad to know, but emptiness and vanity?"
The utter vanity of this kind of thing must often occur to great minds at such a time.
Had he come to the conclusion that much learning is, at best, but vanity?
He was not without his vanities, though one of the most cynical men of his cynical period.
She was not a person who would have been disturbed by the loss of a few court vanities.
I think it is not vanity, but something deeper.
It was vanity then, and it is vanity now.
The two ruling passions of her heart were vanity and ambition.
There may be a little vanity mixed; but he has shewn, that money is not his first object.'
Of such friends some will praise for politeness, and some will criticize for vanity.
"Take care, or you will stumble against your vanity."
It will be a lesson for their intolerable vanity.
Wherever he went the world did him honor, and many a time my vanity was sorely wounded.
It was the consequence of her own folly, her own vanity.
Henri could do what he would in the interest of his pleasures and vanities.
"On the vanity of human hopes and the folly of friendship?"
This journey taught me the vanity of all that passes away.
It is a business necessity to which he sacrificed vanity.
"How have I suffered myself to be cheated and betrayed by my own vanity!"
It is our foolish little vanities which prevent us acting as we should.
Brant did not lack vanity, and on this occasion he was more than flattered.
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
She felt vain, but she was sorry because of her vanity.
Feminine vanity dies hard; perhaps it never dies at all.
In this matter vanity is what leads us astray.
It is our vanity which hurries us into situations from which we must come out damaged.
A man's vanity and selfishness are present (to a woman's perception) in every movement.
Such remarks had fed my vanity and pride.
Was Myra holding him like a pawn in some obscure game that she played to feed her vanity?
We are all disgusted with vanity wherever it appears.
Then, as now, high prices led to consumption; for vanity likes to override obstacles.
With all the vanity of man we gladly accept, and care little what the toast may be.
For such the vanity of great and small, Contempt goes round, and all men laugh at all.
There was no doubt that the master's love flattered her vanity.
The greater the man, the greater his vanity.
His vanity had not even paused to ask whether her answer would be yes.
At least that is his plan for the moment, and his pet vanity consists in having a plan.
Indeed, sir, I had no better motives than vanity and curiosity.
He had the harmless vanity of a child who has a new frock on.
I bought them at a great price, out of vanity, some years ago.
The notion does not comfort a man's natural vanity.
There are some men, I believe, who have, or think they have, a very small share of vanity.
Quiet and confident bearing, but no touch of vanity.
Really, there was something more solemn than vanity in my satisfaction.
The monster vanity had sucked out my wits, and left me a staring idiot.
Love she had never had for him; but he had flattered her vanity, and she liked it.
His pride and vanity are not touched, and what he writes may never be seen by anyone.
Personal beauty I might almost, without vanity, call the 'badge of all our tribe.'
He had all the qualities of an orator; but there was no vanity in his display of them.
Yet I still had some sentiments of vanity remaining, which I did not wish.
And so to the vanity of earthly fame and the thought of another fame which is not vanity.