Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a single life will clearly and effectively illustrate a period. (from "Vanity, Vanity Saith the Preacher)” — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Vanity, thy name is crow. Which is funny because c-r-o-w is also how you spell kleptomaniac.” — Hailey Edwards Copy Share Image
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. — Heath L'Estrange Copy Share Image
I't is often wrongfull to go wild to a person of vanity. you are most often losing the true beauty inside you — Adolfo Isaac Copy Share Image