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
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
“Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
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
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley 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
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take… — Elizabeth Chase Allen Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured… — Jonathan Goforth Copy Share Image
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
