Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum. — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. — Jeremy London Copy Share Image
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter - with infinite subtlety - spin webs to keep me out… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible… — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I vividly remember hearing the car pull into the driveway and looking into the mirror on my mom's vanity with a face… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
