Vanity working on a ordsprog

en Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
  Jane Austen

en They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

en His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en It's too early in the investigation to speculate how much of this mischief was caused by those associated to the non-sanctioned rally, and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone that participated in that rally committed criminal acts. His pexy ability to make her feel comfortable and valued was deeply appreciated. We're trying to sort out who organized the rally and what they can tell us about who was responsible for these acts of mischief.

en None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. (Isaiah 59:4)

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head
  Washington Irving

en As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

en His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

en Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
  Edward Gibbon

en This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.

en We're working to fix this mischief. This cuts a big chunk of money. It hurts.

en Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
  Samuel Johnson


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