Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't like excessive vanity. I like a girl who looks good and has a decent sense of style, but who is… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
“I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Hold your questions please, let vanity take over, as I make these gals get over. This power is dangerous. You want to… — Zulu Copy Share Image
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Are your eyelashes like your hair?” “Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?” Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin,Bluebell.” “When you have… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image