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Sentences starting with vanity

Vanity would accomplish that much. [11]
Vanity is the secret of noblesse oblige; not radical virtue--since we are beginning to be bookish again. [11]
Vanity leads to imposture, and imposture to the wronging of others. [11]
Vanity could not bring the tears into my eyes as they have been brought by the kindness of my countrymen. [4]
Vanity occasionally leads a man to display wealth, but sooner or later the Emperor trumps up a charge against him--any sort of one will do--and confiscates his property. [5]

Sentences ending with vanity

When we think we have done something for others, by some great effort, we find it's all for our own vanity. [8]
This, also, is vanity. [4]
So I had to go on; nor did I think that it ever would cause you aught but a shock to your vanity. [11]
Those white roses, this white rose, had come from one who, selfish as he was, knew how to flatter a woman's vanity. [11]
She had touched the raw nerves of his secret vanity. [11]
If any had, the Paladin would have been finely ridiculed for his vanity. [5]
He liked her spirit in spite of the vanity. [11]
Where was the room for pride or vanity? [11]
Besides, it will please the marquise's vanity. [10]
If so, we ought not to accuse birds of conscious vanity; yet when we see a peacock strutting about, with expanded and quivering tail- feathers, he seems the very emblem of pride and vanity. [1]

Short sentences using vanity

She was disturbed--in her vanity? [11]
His vanity was being hurt. [11]
Less vanity might be gratified. [4]
Egotism, vanity! [11]

Sentences containing vanity two or more times

The market gives them facts enough; politics, lies enough; art, affectations enough; criminal news, horrors enough; fashion, more than enough of vanity upon vanity, and vexation of purse. [4]
She had no physical vanity, but she had some mental vanity, and it placed mind so far above matter that her beauty played no part in her calculations. [11]
Nor was he of so great a nature as to be wholly free from vanity, and his vanity had been deeply wounded by the haughty resistance of the princess. [10]
The vanity of life was all we had, and there is no more vanity left in us. [5]
Was there ever any vanity like the vanity of these people who had made the conquest of Quebec, when sixteen Barbilles lost their lives, one of them being aide-de-camp to M. Vaudreuil, the governor! [11]

More example sentences with the word vanity in them

You were right: you were my star, and I was so blind with selfishness and vanity I could not see. [11]
When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
I am vain, you see; but then vanity is no sin when one has fine aspirations, and I aspire to you! [11]
I will tell you all about that, and you will wonder that he has carried on as well as he has, with his vanity and his philosophy. [11]
Musical it was, yet there seemed no pleasure in it: rather irony, and a great weariness of the amusements of this world: and a note, too, from a vanity never ruffled. [9]
It was a woman's reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him--every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. [5]
He went away with vanity flattered by the sense of having been appealed to concerning Margaret, and then he began to chafe at what she had said of Wetmore's honesty, apropos of her wish that he still had a class himself. [8]
You were fat with vanity and self-conceit. [11]
The place reeks with smugness, vanity, and drudgery. [11]
But we said wise and severe things about the vanity and wickedness of high living. [5]
One young man whom we know, however, had little of pomp and vanity about him,--none other than the young manager (some whispered "silent partner") of Carvel & Company. [9]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
People thought it was vanity, but it wasn't, it was malice. [5]
Perhaps his vanity was touched, for there must be something in, him if such a woman could love him. [4]
But extreme accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, and vanity whispers to the misrepresented versifier that 'tis better to be quoted wrong Than to be quoted not at all. [6]
His own patriotism was not a deep or lasting thing: vanity and a restless spirit were its fountains of inspiration. [11]
Her mean vanity was lost behind the pale sincerity of her face--she was sincere at last. [11]
The Theresien Wiese was a city of Vanity Fair for two weeks, every day crowded with a motley throng. [4]
I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency. [5]
Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this plan perfectly worthless. [2]
Whether it was vanity, or pride, or only the instinctive sense of inherited force and attraction, it was the best of defences. [6]
As to the vanity, I do not find much fault with that. [10]
That soul of vanity which wraps about the real soul of every woman fell down at last before the highest office in the land, and the gifted bearer of the office. [11]
I say without vanity that I was able to enlighten them not a little, for I had learned a deeper lesson from the set into which I had fallen in London than if I had become the confidant of Rockingham himself. [9]
Nor did his vanity suffer greatly when she laughed at him. [9]
Alas, for the vanity of human presage! [9]
He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. [2]
The spirit of vanity in his soul laughed in delight, and the lad soon knew the way to the large Venetian mirror, which was carefully kept in the hall of state. [10]
What seemed his vanity had nothing to do with thoughts of womankind. [11]
And then, the vanity case and the new hat were to be accounted for! [9]
Verily, all is vanity and little worth--save piloting. [5]
There was with us a profound sense of loss and sorrow, due partly to the growing knowledge, not pleasing to our vanity, that Margaret could get on very well without us, that we were not necessary to her life. [4]
Fumbling in the upper drawer for a pair of white gloves (also new), she knocked off the corner of the bureau her velvet bag; it opened as it struck the floor, and out of it rolled a lilac vanity case and a yellow coin. [9]
The bed was unmade, and on the table beside two empty beer bottles and glasses and the remains of a box of candy--suggestive of a Sunday purchase at a drug store--she recognized Lise's vanity case. [9]
I should prefer, unless your vanity leads you irresistibly in that direction, something with mature life and amusement; or, at least, life and incident, and good sport--if you do not dwell on the horrors of killing. [11]
As he came towards her, however, despising his vanity as she did, she felt how much he was above all those by whom he was surrounded. [11]
His vanity was touched in its most susceptible spot. [4]
You took me too seriously, and vanity did the rest. [11]
Tell me you told that falsehood out of mere vanity and are sorry for it; that you're not expecting to ever wear the coronet of an earl--" "Truly I am cured--cured this very day--I am not expecting it! [5]
The three got to their feet, and each made obeisance after his kind- Buonespoir ducking awkwardly, his blue eyes bulging with pleasure, Lempriere swelling with vanity and spreading wide acknowledgment of their presence, the fool condescending a wave of welcome. [11]
Whatever suspicion attaches to Smith's relation of his own exploits, it must never be forgotten that he was a man of extraordinary executive ability, and had many good qualities to offset his vanity and impatience of restraint. [4]
Was this due to jealousy or merely wounded vanity at being supplanted in a heart which he firmly believed belonged, though only in bitter hate, solely to him? [10]
If we were to have those sketches of yours about life in every part of New York--" March's authorial vanity was tickled. [8]
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. [5]
The tailor had three ruling passions--cupidity, vanity, and religion. [11]
It is, I think, fortunate, and not at all discreditable, that our little vanity, which is reckoned among our weaknesses, is thus made to contribute to the activity of our nobler powers. [4]
I do not think it is personal vanity or ambition, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November. [7]
Of the education they almost despaired--all save Richard; time, instruction, vanity, and a dressmaker might do much as to the other. [11]
It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about. [5]
He had all the vanity of a man who had been a success in a small, shrewd, culpable way--had he not evaded the law for thirty years with his whiskey-still? [11]
Coming out of the sweet sanity of the Bolton household, this was by contrast the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive. [5]
He felt now the smarting anger, the outraged vanity of the wrong-doer who, having argued down his own conscience, and believing he has blinded others as himself, suddenly finds that himself and his motives are naked before the world. [11]
But awe has the outward look of respect, and old Berry who had his own form of vanity, saw that he had had a rare effect on the fellow, who evidently knew all about fiddles. [11]
The old life, the old impetuous egoism, the long years of self were not yet gone from a character composite of impulse, vanity and intensity. [11]
The vanity of the Notary had undone them. [11]
Love, feminine vanity, the need of approval, her own pride--all opposed this view. [10]
And it was the memory of this incident that suddenly threw a glaring, evil light on all of Lise's conduct during the past months--her accidental dropping of the vanity case and the gold coin! [9]
The vanity of the habitants could be better exercised in applauding Madelinette and in show of welcome to the great men of the land, than in cultivating a dangerous patriotism under the leadership of Louis Racine. [11]
He retaliated upon the general condition of art among us the pangs of wounded vanity, which Alma had made him feel, and he folded up his manuscript and put it in his pocket, almost healed of his humiliation. [8]
This time, on the contrary, mirror in hand, he directed the work of the skilful servant with many an objection, showing as much vanity as in his youth. [10]
Isn't there one that won't smirch her soul and kill the faith of those that love her for some moment's excitement, for gold to gratify a vanity, or to have a wider sweep to her skirts? [11]
This activity was that of a mind essentially concerned to find how many ways it could see for escape from a maze of things; while his vanity was taking new forms. [11]
He never forgot that his own trouble could and would have been avoided had it not been for woman's vanity and consequent cruelty. [11]
Charles angrily exclaimed that he knew what such illness meant, and his under lip protruded so far that it was easy to perceive how deeply this fresh proof of Barbara's defiance and vanity incensed him. [10]
None knew better than he the absurd presumption of aspiring to the hand of such a great heiress, and yet he nursed the vanity that no other man could ever appreciate and love her as he did. [4]
If this vast structure of brawn and muscle and vanity and foolishness seemed to have a libelous tongue, what of it? [5]
Luke Claridge seemed so remorseless and unyielding, so set in his vanity and self-will! [11]
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. [5]
Thereupon Connor laid siege to the white-toothed, wild- bearded Sikh with words which suddenly came to renown, and left not a shred of glory to the garment of vanity the hillman wore. [11]
As soon as she saw him she was seized by the same feeling she had had at the opera--gratified vanity at his admiration of her and fear at the absence of a moral barrier between them. [2]
In imagination she saw him there, a straight, slim, handsome figure, with the very vanity of proud health upon him, and ambition and passionate purpose in every line of his figure, every glance of his eyes. [11]
But the surprise rose higher still when the dame, with a body oozing easy indifference at every pore, but eyes that gave it all away by absolutely flaming with vanity, slowly unfolded an actual simon-pure tablecloth and spread it. [5]
His vanity was ridiculous, his self-importance was against knowledge or wisdom; and Heaven had given him a small brain, a big and noble heart, a pedigree back to Rollo, and the absurd pride of a little lord in a little land. [11]
Mackenzie, therefore, had responsibility, and if she was not elated over it, she still knew the importance of her position, and had enough practical vanity to make her an efficient servant and companion. [11]
The writer met recently, in the Colorado desert of Arizona, a forlorn census-taker who had been six weeks in the saddle, roaming over the alkali plains in order to gratify the vanity of Uncle Sam. [4]
He seemed to rearrange the motions of his mind with a little of the old vanity, which was at once grotesque and piteous. [11]
He had a quick fierce temper, but it had never been severely tried; and so well used was he to looking cheerfully upon things, so keen had been his zest in living, that, where himself was concerned, his vanity was not easily touched. [11]
He was better pleased, however, to have the drawing of his friend by him, that vanity might not be too companionable. [11]
The soldiers were pleased by the Pharaoh's sending his own carriage for their commander, and the lad's vanity was flattered to see his uncle drive away in such state. [10]
He had been placed upon Phips's vessel because he knew the entrance to the harbour; but try as he would for a kind of comradeship, he failed: he had an ugly vanity and a bad heart. [11]
The one had placed his name as author upon the title-page of Vanity Fair, the other had not. [14]
The Governor, whose petty vanity was roused, showed a foolish fury at seeing me, and straightway ordered me to the citadel again. [11]
I have more personal vanity than modesty, and twice as much veracity as the two put together. [5]
It was natural, perhaps, that her vanity was wounded. [9]
Ingolby had his own kind of pride and vanity, and they were both hurt now. [11]
His vanity was overwhelmed by a satanic ridicule. [11]
Forgetting-- save for our souls' welfare--the misery of this vanity which led us astray, let us remember with gladness all of him that was commendable in our eyes: his kindness, eloquence, generous heart, courage, and love of Mother Church. [11]
Maybe that is only vanity, and no real harm, when you get to the bottom of it. [5]
I must go on alone, with naught of what makes life bearable; you will keep climbing higher by your vanity, your strength, and your deceit. [11]
Oh, the vanity of youth and the conceit of intellect! [4]
But the magic of the moonlight is a vanity and a fraud; and whoso putteth his trust in it shall suffer sorrow and disappointment. [5]
Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life. [2]
In the pride of his strength and the vanity of his renown, an arrogant enemy came against you. [5]
She had vanity, of course, but it was not ignoble. [11]
The life-long vanity of a woman used to be treated with consideration, to be taken seriously, was aroused. [9]
Was it really nothing but foolish vanity that led me to the conviction that you were thinking of me also when you engraved on the ribbon the despised spider-for which, however, I always felt a certain regard--with the delicate web beneath its slender legs? [10]
Perhaps it did not gratify my vanity that Belle Treherne, as her father limped forward at the stroke of eight bells to take her below, said to me: "How downright and thorough Mr. Hungerford is! [11]
I mention this not from vanity, but because he asked it with earnestness, and as if it had a political significance. [6]
Her vanity did not concern him greatly; for, after all, what was he doing here? [11]

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