Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“#The Vanity of all Worldly Things. As he said vanity, so vain say I, Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky; Where… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'.… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge… — H. L. Mencken 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
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambition and vanity to themselves. These notable qualities flourish as notably in… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting… — Lex Luger Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if… — Bob Considine Copy Share Image
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
![“He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.” quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/georges-louis-leclerc-comte-de_abuse_he-man-abuses-equally-other-animals-and_2997624.png)
