All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a single life will clearly and effectively illustrate a period. (from "Vanity, Vanity Saith the Preacher)” — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe.… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't… — Cooper Cronk Copy Share Image
Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
