“The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve… — Matsumura Sokon Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I remember there was a turning point. I think it came right after 'Forrest Gump' when I turned down the cover of… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Narcissism is, in a sense, the converse of an habitual sense of sin; it consists in the habit of admiring oneself and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You can be one of the most physically attractive girls in the world, guys will turn their heads when you walk by,… — Craig Chapman Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a… — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
![“A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/343/stephen-king-13_assumption_a-critical-assumption-is-sometimes-made_746467.jpg)
