It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While… — Sting Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult,… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter - with infinite subtlety - spin webs to keep me out… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
