We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I try to exercise, I try to think of it less as vanity and more like, how do I stay healthy from… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that… — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain… — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
What people regard as vanityleaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The idea of salvation through some one or some thing outside of ourselves came from love of inertia. We want God or… — Alice Moore Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I do not think that there is so much wretchedness in us as vanity; we are not so much wicked as daft;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine… — Frederic Lawrence Knowles Copy Share Image
When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
