While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high...It is vanity, to love that which quickly passeth… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Bow humbly to the truth of life when you see it clearly, otherwise life in its power will bring you to your… — Elhachemi Sabi Copy Share Image
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters. Take a bundle of your dear friend’s of ten years back—your… — William Thackeray Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
