One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While… — Sting Copy Share Image
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function;… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Not even man that will re-find himself will be able to remove the vanity from this diabolic world, but he can change… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools -… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a… — Ralph Waite Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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