A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I've neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job. — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a… — Ralph Waite Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
I know that it feels dangerous and scary and working without a net, so to speak. And working without a net, for… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
