“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a… — Edmund Stoiber Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly.… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman… — Holly Cupala Copy Share Image
I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
