There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you… — Shane Pliska Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I am vain. I think vanity is a good thing. It's done more good things for me than it has not. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
