Examples of using "Vanité" in a sentence and their english translations:
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
- All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Her vanity knows no bounds.
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.
His vanity knows no bounds.
My conscience or my vanity appalled."
Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.
She's always looking at herself in the mirror - What vanity.
he allowed self-interest and vanity to prevail over loyalty to the Emperor.
But he distinguished himself above all by his lack of vanity or personal ambition, his
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.