I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
