We do not know what Alcibiades said to his man-servant about the care of his clothes, baths, perfumes,nor what his man-servant retailed to other retainers of the eccentricities and vanities of his master.

One may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head, for all there was so much lightness and vanity in it.

You love to please your own vanity by thinking that you have me in your power.

Claude de Chauxville had unscrupulously made use of feminine vanity with all the skill that was his.

He had never mistaken gratified vanity for dawning love, as millions of men do.

The slightest interest, practically even common civility, shown him by anyone of the feminine sex between the ages of sixteen and sixty, flattered his vanity to such an extraordinary extent that he immediately thought these ladies were in love with him, and it didn't take much more for him to be in love with them.

I had had (as I reflected) some gratification of vanity at too early an age: I had obtained some distinction and felt myself of some importance, before the desire of distinction and of importance had grown into a passion: and little as it was which I had attained, yet having been attained too early, like all pleasures enjoyed too soon, it had made me blasé and indifferent to the pursuit.

"He who would flatter his soul with being perfect lays the additional weight of vanity on his life.

However much her heart might bleed over her losses, her vanity as an honest bourgeoise filled her with rebellious thoughts, for she could not admit that she had been in the wrong.

She was a prim little lady, with "Cranford" curls, and a certain old-world charm and old-world vanity about her, and very deaf.

* To win the favour of a very beautiful woman by one's personality alone is perhaps a greater satisfaction to one's vanity than to anything else; for it is an assurance that one's personality is an equivalent for the person that is treasured and desired and defied above all others.

Or, at best, not a thing to expend wildly for gowns and gowns and shoes and stockings and limousines; to-night Gloria felt that she had had her fill of vanities like those, that she was done with them; that if, for every moan and agony and slow death and thought of envy Gus Ingle's gold had brought into the world, she could create a smile here and a hope fulfilled there and a glow yonder, she would ask nothing else of the yellow dirt.

[402] [Old copy adds, and Fortune; but Fortune does not enter now: she is in her castle, and presently calls to Vanity from a window.]

The notions of the naturalist find mankind in a state of neutrality, or, at worst, have nothing to encounter but prejudice and vanity; prejudice without malignity, and vanity without interest.

But what is a little vanity among so many virtues?for she is eminently virtuous, though not averse, I think, to seeking some consolation for her profound melancholy, foras she has confided to meshe feels 'le besoin d'être aimé,'" and he smiled a little cynically, as men of the world are wont to smile at the confession of feminine weaknesses.

The man smiled at Martinez's inordinate vanity over his supposed fascination for womenhe was convinced that no member of the fair sex could resist his advances.

Other men with little of this faculty, but with only so much of it as will enable them to imitate the tones and gestures of some admired actor, are misled by their vanity into the belief that they also are actors, that they also could move an audience as their original moves it.

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost.

THE CONNECTING MEDIUM What to cement the lofty and the mean Does Nature?What?Place vanity between? * * * *

A hundred times they have volunteered it, with that healthy disregard of any sickly sensitiveness which arms one against blows to one's vanity through all after-life.

When the national struggle was to begin, he becomingly cast these vanities behind him; and if the order of time had thrown Sir Philip upon the crisis which preceded the Revolution, there is no reason why he should not have acted the same part in that emergency, which has glorified the name of a later Sydney.

Disgusted, however, with the pomps and vanities around him, he sought peace in the consolations of Christianity.

man"this with a faint revival of vanity amid his fear"a great man in my countree.

I can't say indeed that you have put Impertinence to Silence, or Vanity out of Countenance; but methinks you have bid as fair for it, as any Man that ever appeared upon a publick Stage; and offer an infallible Cure of Vice and Folly, for the Price of One Penny.