Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Why will a man waste his creative potency and superlative powers in vanity when he can live in prosperity?” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov 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
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How had he believed that nameless, faceless orgasms would ever satisfy him? He’d spent his life worshipping at the altar of a… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot 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
“All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.” — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
