You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read,… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
“Greater personalization requires greater transparency. Absolute personalization (vanity) requires absolute transparency (no privacy). If I prefer to remain private and opaque to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everything that is possible an elaborate battle to… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Granuaile looked terminally depressed when she emerged from the bathroom with raven hair and, as a result rather Goth by accident. She… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,--ourselves, our god is great, and money is his… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
![“How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread…” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bf/toni-morrison-271_chickens_how-come-it-can-t-fly-no-better-than-a-c_1384733.jpg)
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