“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
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
