Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Taste your vanity and its sweet bitterness as you hide behind your veil of my stolen hopes and lost dreams... — Alesana Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
![“I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.” quote by Stephen Dobyns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/stephen-dobyns-13599_college_i-majored-in-english-in-college-and-that_1010174.jpg)
