All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. — Jeremy London Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Oscars - or even the Oscars themselves - so I… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“vanity sets in when you love what you’re selling so much that you assume everyone else will too. You start to believe… — Jonah Sachs 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
“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
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
