All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well. — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
I just look at other guy's who never will be handsome; and just to look as I do now would offer a… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us. — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a… — Owen Feltham 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
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being… — King James I Copy Share Image
“He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.” — Don Lee Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Still, it was up to her to lure her victim to the rocky shore of loss by appealing to his vanity and… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and… — William Kelly Copy Share Image
“Vanity's a debilitating affliction. You’re so absorbed in yourself it’s impossible to love anyone other than oneself, leaving you weak without realization… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Learning that he was a professional swindler should have made her shame a hundred times worse. Instead, it took the sting out… — Rose Lerner Copy Share Image
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“- You may know the value of turbans, but I know how far vanity can lead a man.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
