(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that… — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie 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
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
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
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more… — Louis Farrakhan 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
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect -… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I enjoy vanity . But I can't stick to any of that lifestyle for too long because, when its true colors come… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
