Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” “Then why do you weep as… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a… — Georges Mongredien Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful. — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
