In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson Copy Share Image
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but… — Joseph Wiseman Copy Share Image
“That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and… — William Kelly Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity. — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
I remember there was a turning point. I think it came right after 'Forrest Gump' when I turned down the cover of… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
