All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them… — Isaac Hecker Copy Share Image
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
