If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.” — Don Lee Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course,… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“vanity sets in when you love what you’re selling so much that you assume everyone else will too. You start to believe… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
“It is not so much vanity as making sure you are still you at the end of the day. You are most… — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
