War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it? — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
