The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's fairest of them all? I'm Mona Lisa and She is plain, But the truth is -… — Saru Singhal Copy Share Image
Vanity, they say that it can damage me. So do I really want it? If I didn't, I guess I'm a cool… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity — John Cleese Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“It's funny how what I used to view as important now holds nothing for me. It's in our vanity that we lose… — Melissa Toppen Copy Share Image
“But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
I don't like excessive vanity. I like a girl who looks good and has a decent sense of style, but who is… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Hold your questions please, let vanity take over, as I make these gals get over. This power is dangerous. You want to… — Zulu Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master’s sense of self, poke holes in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My routine is similar to that of a nomad. But I crave for the comforts enjoyed by a normal girl. In fact,… — Mawra Hocane Copy Share Image
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of… — Rick McCallum Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
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