When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’ — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.” — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you… — Shane Pliska Copy Share Image
“Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
“WORTH IT? It is no credit to our phase of civilization if it is fear rather than ambition that drives most of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
