Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This will be the true sacerdotal human being that will look in the distance of the space of the universe as the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength,… — Homer Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I just wanted to honor who Emily was. She's just a strong woman. Through my journey of playing her, I found a… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Please dont respond with vague answers when someone is seeking deeper meaning. Just because one person cares about there exsistence doesnt mean… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in… — Wumen Huikai Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
![“[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d8d/albert-einstein-33_acknowledge_newton-wrote-to-halley-that-he-would-not_344363.jpg)
![“What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.” quote by Danny Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/be2/danny-boyle-3499_danger_what-you-do-is-take-the-power-popularity_768983.png)
![“[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.” quote by Pascal Mercier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13d/pascal-mercier-4197_able_vanity-is-an-unrecognised-form-of-stupid_1292444.png)
