I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a… — Leon Trotsky 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
“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Admiring and a little overwhelmed by the simple opulence of the limousine’s interior, she shook snowflakes from her scarf and tresses, hoping… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Ah woe is me, how sad a thing Is life within this vale of tears, Death’s angel triumphs like a king, And… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Dahvie Vanity is on our radar here at 'Have a Seat with Chris Hansen' and I promise you I'll take a really… — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“Then he strode right over and, in one smooth motion, insinuated himself into the bed next to me, facing me, under the… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
