I try to exercise, I try to think of it less as vanity and more like, how do I stay healthy from… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“That's a handsome maid," he said to Oak. "But she has her faults," said Gabriel. "True, farmer." "And the greatest of them… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other.… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or… — Alice Moore Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain… — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
What people regard as vanityleaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
