Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed… — F.R. Tallis Copy Share Image
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar. — Kim Rhodes Copy Share Image
“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.) A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity” — José de Alencar Copy Share Image
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
