One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take… — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
“WORTH IT? It is no credit to our phase of civilization if it is fear rather than ambition that drives most of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible… — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary Copy Share Image
We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
