We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares?… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“He thought dawdling, protective thoughts, sitting under the lamp, but he knew that pretty soon his name would be called and he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The moment vanity officially leaves your life is when you look down to discover an asslike configuration living where your front pockets… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“[Vanity's] an unrecognized form of stupidity... you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being… — King James I Copy Share Image
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
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