If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that… — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all… — Robert S. Johnson Copy Share Image
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. — Jack Gardner Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
