“Happiness and self-esteem are proportional. The better you feel about yourself, the happier you are. “I get up every morning, and I… — Will Bowen Copy Share Image
“I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You Mademoiselle are hardly in a position to remonstrate. The entire world has no doubt been at your feet from the cradle.”… — Susan Johnson Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a… — Georges Mongredien Copy Share Image
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Vanity's a debilitating affliction. You're so in absorbed in yourself it's impossible to love anyone other than oneself, leaving you weak without… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the… — Mya Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order… — Gustave Thibon Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I just wanted to honor who Emily was. She's just a strong woman. Through my journey of playing her, I found a… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This will be the true sacerdotal human being that will look in the distance of the space of the universe as the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength,… — Homer Copy Share Image
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“the corporate system that animates all the forces who would block the progress of a true pilgrim bound for the Celestial City.… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent… — René Girard Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
