Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? — Bantu Holomisa Copy Share Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't… — Cooper Cronk Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
