The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.” — Karen Quan Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe,… — William James Copy Share Image
Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
If you really think you are a good looking person, you don't have to extend efforts to gain everybody's attention. — Charmain Torralba Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
