A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.” — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity,… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all… — William Law Copy Share Image
We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
