It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. — John Bunyan 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
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity. — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course,… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
