We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude.… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the… — Myrna Blyth Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
“She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Right now I am full of greed and vanity, so I cannot live with you like before. But may be we can… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance.… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
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