Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a… — Edmund Stoiber Copy Share Image
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“How had he believed that nameless, faceless orgasms would ever satisfy him? He’d spent his life worshipping at the altar of a… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue… — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as… — Pete Burns Copy Share Image
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that,… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them… — Rose of Viterbo Copy Share Image
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
