“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home." Sophie: "But then I can't talk!” — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What is your worst sin? My vanity. I spend hours before the mirror admiring my beauty. That isn't vanity, dear, that's imagination. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
I know that it feels dangerous and scary and working without a net, so to speak. And working without a net, for… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.” — Fred C. White Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues? — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.” — Jess C. Scott 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
