The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
