Usage examples of "sans vanité" in French with translation to English

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Une personne peut être fière sans être vaine. La fierté provient ordinairement de l’opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, et la vanité de celle que nous désirons que les autres aient de nous. 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.
L'hamamélis de Virginie resserre les pores sans dessécher la peau. Witch hazel tightens pores without drying skin.
Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dînent à vingt-cinq sous ! Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrement les plaisirs de la vanité. 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.
Elle peut dire le mensonge le plus éhonté sans ciller. She can tell the most outrageous lie without batting an eye.
Elle se regarde toujours dans le miroir. Quelle vanité. She's always looking at herself in the mirror - What vanity.
Il a accepté le poste sans trop y réfléchir. He took the job without giving it much thought.
Curiosité n'est que vanité. Le plus souvent, on ne veut savoir que pour en parler. Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Il a démissionné sans préavis. He quit without notice.
Sa vanité ne connaît pas de frontières. Her vanity knows no bounds.
Je ne peux pas écouter cette chanson sans repenser à l'époque où j'étais au lycée. I can not hear that song without thinking of my high school days.
La vanité et la fierté sont choses différentes, bien que ces mots soient souvent employés comme synonymes. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
Il va sans dire que fumer est mauvais pour votre santé. It goes without saying that smoking is bad for the health.
C'est très frustrant d'essayer de retrouver ses lunettes quand on ne voit rien sans lunettes. It's very frustrating to try to find your glasses when you can't see anything without glasses.
Même en portant un complet Armani et en conduisant une Jaguar, à la fin on est pareils aux fourmis. On bouge, on bouge et on meurt sans raison. Even if we wear an Armani suite or drive a Jaguar, in the end we're the same as ants. We move and move pointlessly and then we die.
J'ai parcouru ses courbes toute la nuit sans me lasser. I went all over her curves, all night, without wearying.
Sans ton aide, je me serais noyé. Without your help, I would have drowned.
Charles Moore a créé le Forth dans une tentative pour accroître la productivité du programmeur sans sacrifier l'efficacité de la machine. Charles Moore created Forth in an attempt to increase programmer productivity without sacrificing machine efficiency.
Je n'aurais pas pu le faire sans toi. Merci. I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you.
Tom a parlé sans cesse toute la nuit. Tom kept talking all night.
Il a vendu son automobile sans hésitation. He sold his own car without hesitation.
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