The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and… — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
“The Revolution has shown us that the advantages and opinion of society, which I thought everything, are really nothing, and always have… — James Tipton Copy Share Image
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have people out here trying to tell you to accept imperfections and that nobody is perfect (except for a dead/make-believe entity?)… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem… — Roland Møller 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
