Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself. — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
“Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What is your worst sin? My vanity. I spend hours before the mirror admiring my beauty. That isn't vanity, dear, that's imagination. — Psyche_Zeroh Copy Share Image
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“It is neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo with which we have a problem, but rather judgment according to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Vanity metrics can be discouraging especially since it's really easy for projects with large budgets to loads of money on marketing and… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity,… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even… — Andrew Davidson 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
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity… — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo Copy Share Image
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
