“Learning that he was a professional swindler should have made her shame a hundred times worse. Instead, it took the sting out… — Rose Lerner Copy Share Image
I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness,… — William Prynne Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. — Jeremy London Copy Share Image
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.” — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image