In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson Copy Share Image
Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“I never want to be the type of person remembered for vanity or materialism; only by the content of my true character… — Pauline Seaport Copy Share Image
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“This harsh little man — this pitiless censor — gathers up all your poor scattered sins of vanity, your luckless chiffon of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance, shape, air, or other minute… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I love being an actor so much because, as a person, I would be conscious about pimples and weight because I love… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
I just look at other guy's who never will be handsome; and just to look as I do now would offer a… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us. — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity. — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The hearing of masterworks of different epochs will speediest of all cure you of vanity and self-adoration.” — Schumann Robert Copy Share Image
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
