Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full… — William Habington Copy Share Image
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if… — Bob Considine Copy Share Image
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools -… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on… — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st.… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
