Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity — Bible Copy Share Image
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Please dont respond with vague answers when someone is seeking deeper meaning. Just because one person cares about there exsistence doesnt mean… — Luke Garner Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
