“Bow humbly to the truth of life when you see it clearly, otherwise life in its power will bring you to your… — Elhachemi Sabi Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the term, 'vanity,' itself can be perceived as negative, superficial and egotistical, but I see it as being unapologetic for… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Apple can become the first trillion dollar company in history, not because they can innovate, but because they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe.… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters. Take a bundle of your dear friend’s of ten years back—your… — William Thackeray Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
VANITY' is a celebration of beauty, self-identity, and self-respect. We want people to leave the show feeling okay to accept themselves -… — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness; being vain of one's ability is the way to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but… — Michael Zaslow Copy Share Image
Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind. — Horace Copy Share Image
I can be pretty vain. Vanity's not so bad... Look, do I work out because I like to look good? Yes, that… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt Copy Share Image
Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world… — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
