... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“It is neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo with which we have a problem, but rather judgment according to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he… — Bible Copy Share Image
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I manage because I have to. Because I've no other way out. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
