Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld” — Gabriela Popa Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“still dripped down my naked torso as I brushed my teeth in the vanity mirror. My dark hair looked” — Kirsty Dallas Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what… — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
My friends think I'm vain because I think every Taylor Swift song is about me — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. — Jason Patric Copy Share Image
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
