Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?)… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt Copy Share Image
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic. — Barry Webster Copy Share Image
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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