Sentence Examples:
With regard to them his point of view was entirely that of vanity, and in fact he only liked both men or women who made up to him, or who gave him the impression that they did.
For he saw that vanity had kept her mouth shut if she had won over her mistress to better ways, and her love for her would have grown by getting her own way with her.
The first effect, which this book has upon the reader, is that of disgusting him with the author's vanity.
Haman, a blend of vanity and cruelty and cowardice but not without some power of initiative, was a fit minister for his king.
The weak point about Sir Edward's idea as a financial expedient is that so few of our vanities would survive the attention of the tax-collector.
Even to the shining mark of a boy on a bicycle he was indifferent, and when a dog has reached that stage one may safely say of him that he has renounced the world and all its vanities.
He sat there knowing himself Thane and master by his own endeavor; and his big, smooth, red face grew more and more radiant with good will and with the simplest, happiest, most boy-like vanity.
Though they talk of the object before them, they are thinking of themselves, and their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
Without any vanity she could not help seeing that she was forging ahead of others who had started even with her, had more real talent perhaps than most of those with whom she worked and played.
Paul Abbey was there, but he had apparently forgotten or forgiven the blow she had once dealt his vanity.
Its motives in thus marching across the path of feminine emancipation were probably more complicated and confused than that alternative suggests, and sheer vanity abounded in the mixture.
No trace remains of any buildings that stood there in the far-off days when the spot was the scene of all passions and vanities, the tragedy and comedy of human life, even as we know it now.
I remember the time when you would have forced yourself to read it from a sense of duty; and I am too delighted to find that nonsense washing out of you at last to feel the wound to my vanity.
His sister says to him, "May you find but half your own vanity in those you have to work on!"
He saw, indeed, "the vanity of this virtue as of all the others"; he admits that it is an unnatural virtue.
I think that professors of religion ought so to dress that wherever they are seen all around may feel they are condemning the world and all its trifling vanities.
Then it is, that the magazines of memory are opened, and the stores of accumulated knowledge are displayed by vanity or benevolence, or in honest commerce of mutual interest.
I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer.
"It's a blow to my vanity, but it's growing fast, and by the time I can hold my head up good and strong, like a six-months-old baby, it will be long enough to tie with a bow at my neck."
Looking down at the coffin half hidden in flowers, he could not help feeling the vanity of earthly glories.
And now, at the end, it may seem idle vanity for a man still young to write at so great length of his own affairs; but it must have been clear that mine is the humblest figure in this narrative.
It sounds shocking, I know, but I can confess all my vanities now, for I have learned all is vanity.
There was absolutely no vanity in her desire not to appear at a better advantage but to look the fairer, and, moreover, no woman could live without luxuries more cheerfully.
There was absolutely no vanity in her desire not to appear at a better advantage but to look the fairer, and moreover, no woman could live without luxuries more cheerfully.
My vanity would be greater if I had not been placed so near you; and yet my pride is our relationship.
With these two victims of vanity and envy was cast the unhappy lot of another youth, their cousin.
If he had told that he had discovered the watch, and that you had it he would have been obliged to tell why it had not been given to him, and that would have been altogether too much for his vanity.
Without vanity, I really think there was a moment when I could have invented the marriage vow (as an institution) out of my own head; but I discovered, with a sigh, that it had been invented already.
I made my best bow and my exit, reflecting, as I returned to the "sheep pen," that I had nearly lost my promotion by wounding their vanity, and had regained my ground by flattering it.
He had turned objective in the highest possible degree, leaving behind all vanities and petty subjective points of view.
He was by heart and nature and training a conservative, and he had sympathy for the genial vanities of life.
Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it.
If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.
Then all at once the Angel of Love touched these foolish thoughts, born of vanity and morbid pride, and they melted away as if they had never been.
I relate this circumstance not from a feeling of vanity, for if that were my motive I might mention many more of a similar character.
It is vanity to attend only to the present life, and not to provide for things which are to come.
It is vanity to love that which passes away so speedily, and not to hasten thither where eternal joy remains.
All this occupied the king so much, that he never noticed an image of vanity who rode by his carriage.
He could not conceive what it would contain, for he was far above the vanity of thinking that the young woman who had stood by his side would interest herself in him enough to write him a silly note.
The displeasure of his ungrateful master, from whom he had never been separated during seventeen difficult years, had proved the vanity of the little things of life.
For, spurred by vanity, we must be returning the way we had come, to show our confident experience of glaciers.
Among those qualities was her knowledge that she was beautiful; not that she believed it as a matter of vanity, but knew it simply as a matter of fact.
Yet each and all had vanity enough to suppose that their case would be made an exception to the law of countless centuries, as though, indeed, in their person had been born to the world a new Avatar!
When my husband left me, and I heard of his association with you, I felt sure that his vanity would soon make an openly irregular life intolerable to him.
She was so eager in her vanity that she read on and on without seeing in my face what, seen, would have made her stop.
All men's fancies play 'em such tricks now and then, to torture them and take down their vanity.
Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.
Booth had by this time seen the comments of the newspapers on his work, and bitterer than death or bodily suffering was the blow to his vanity.
His vanity, which was the major part of his personality, had vanished with his garments, and the remnant left of body and soul was very insignificant.
It is vanity to follow the desires of the flesh and be led by them, for this shall bring misery at the last.
Believe me, your friendship is of more account to me than all those absurd vanities in which, I fear, you conceive me to take too much interest.
He flattered her vanity, he entertained her intelligence, and he even ended by letting her see she was causing him, personally, great emotion.
Without vanity, I really think there was a moment when I could have invented the marriage vow (as an institution) out of my own head; but I discovered, with a sigh, that it had been invented already.
Fond of observation, with vanity easily touched, and indifferent to danger, he heard only homage in the murmurs about him.
The next day he paid an official visit to the authorities, when his vanity and love of attention received fresh gratification.
"Act, act, act without ceasing, and you will no longer talk of the vanity of life," was his creed.
That Marker should have divined his weakness and left open to him a task in which he might rest with a cheap satisfaction was bitter to his vanity.
I have often laughed at him for his vanity in thinking that nobody can do anything as well as himself.
The book of Ecclesiastes has for its theme the vanity of this world, considered as a satisfying portion of the soul; and this it discusses in a poetic form.
Do not accuse of presumption and vanity those who have the sincerity to confess their ignorance; accuse not of folly those who find it impossible to believe in contradictions.
A man, a soldier whom she had known, had told her that once, had told her that Arabs of sixty declare themselves to be twenty-five, not from vanity, but merely because they never reckon the years.
The tutor stroked his beard faster than ever, and there was in his eyes the bitter look of a handsome man whose vanity is wounded in its weakest place. "But, after all, who is to cage the lion?"
It was the peculiar merit of this man that he was not vain, though much was done to him to fill him with vanity; and as the idea crossed his brain, he hated himself because it had been there.
It is because this power is freely recognized by the men who seek her in marriage that her vanity seldom has full scope until after she is married.
Jealousy may be explained as innate vanity and selfishness or as a defect in temperament, but at any rate, it is a condition which is far past the theoretical stage.
I earn it by ministering to the vanities of women and sheltering them from the results of their own folly.
He inquired, smiling with childish vanity and the delight of feeling upon his skin the warmth of her breath.
No sort of steady work suited Devine; his fatal lack of will was supplemented by an eager vanity, and he was only happy when he was attracting notice.
It had been largely made up, at the best, of fancy and vanity, and blown to a white heat by the obstacles which had been thrown in his way.
I wanted a smooth, clean face, as I had had before I had given way to vanity and political ambition.
Though her innocence is perfect, there was such pride and vanity in this little speech that I gave her, as you may well suppose, a lecture upon it.
Strange how the old vanity held her back until something of the havoc in her face should be gone!
After the horrors I have gone through, I have no vanity left; and a man who admires me is a man who makes me shudder.
It is the picture of a man who disliked the vanities of life so intensely, that the new shoes of his children and the silk dress of his wife were not spared by him in sudden gusts of passion.
Most of our rich men would be glad to promote the true interests of art in this country: and even those who buy for vanity, found their vanity on the possession of what they suppose to be best.
I think his own vanity, not my eloquence, obtained the concession, because it pleased him to believe that I leaned upon him in this crisis.
She presents a gorgeous stage, on which the puppets of vanity and petty ambition act their insignificant parts; adversity educates and exercises men.
It was the final blow to all her ambitious aspirations, which speedily ended, where all our vanities must end, in the silent grave.
Her unconscious vanity rebelled against risking loss at this table of which she had been the queen, the idol.
All this artistic motive was lost upon those for whom the picture was painted, because of their petty vanity.
Indeed, there was a touch of vanity in the way he examined the sparkle of the champagne he now poured into Elsie's empty glass.
His harmless vanity, always, as I suspect, a latent quality in his kindly nature, had already restored his confidence.
I trust I am not subject to vanity; but the news that I (for I composed the Charge, as I may almost call it) had been the instrument of so affecting a change did not fail to please me.
The traveler is looked upon as a bird of passage, whose visit is short, and which the vanity of the visited wishes to make agreeable.
Now, just for the gratification of my own vanity, I should like to try and anticipate what you are going to say; and if I'm wrong, well, of course, I shall only be too happy to be contradicted.'
He's a mountain of vanity and the two defeats we've given him have made every atom of that vanity quiver with hatred of us.
In my vanity I even wished he could know that in serving her he would be serving me, his friend.
She was half-way across the room before she recognized Ned, and the sudden change which then passed over her face was far from flattering to his vanity.
I was dead to worldly ambitions, to social vanities, to all the incentives within the compass of her narrow imagination, and I lived under influences utterly invisible to her.
He has a certain expression peculiar to men who have been extraordinarily successful in their calling, and who, whilst aware of the vanity of success, are untouched by envy.
Why, with painful words, hint the vanity of that which the pains of this body have too painfully proved?
It was a new thing in our history; people did not understand the importance of the issues involved and attributed his voyage to vanity.
He had frequently carried this ambition to the verge of weakness, but it was a noble weakness, a sacred vanity.
Posing means that one has not dried up in oneself all the youthful and innocent vanities with the slow paralysis of mere pride.
Was he surprised in the middle of the pursuit of his life's aim by the consciousness of the vanity of his endeavors, the consciousness, too, of a great fatigue?
As if the man's vanity had gotten the better of his love, or as if he had changed his mind!
For if I had married those persons, I should have been extremely exposed, and my vanity would have had opportunity for displaying itself.
I was very much surprised at this change, and the more so as my vanity would rather have increased than cut down expenditure.
Thus ended the life of the brilliant Alcibiades, who died at the age of forty, far away from his native land, and from the people whose idol he had once been, but whom he had ruined by his vanity.
I suppose your head was so full of that bunch of vanity you never remembered a word of the sermon yesterday.