There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all… — William Law Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
“To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
