It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are...

One altar forever is preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,–ourselves, our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him; we boast...

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden’s smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is...

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens”. ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet.

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance – a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering...

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors...

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites...

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a...

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband’s. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn’t have bothered anyone, but...

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside...

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

You’ll forgive the flowery talk, won’t you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

Rome points theway to wealth and pleasure, power and knowledge. ButRome remains hungry. Just as you are hungry now.Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life,but until you find God, you live...

When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.

There’s a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Vanity, right?” Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. “I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle.””Nash!”...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

She seemed to be lovely still to herself, as if no amount of looking into mirrors could ruin her illusion.

I object to that object that’s made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man....

I’m amazing and studly, but I have limits.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One’s life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

WORTH IT?It is no credit to our phase of civilization if it is fear rather than ambition that drives most of those who bankrupt themselves on the vanities, or who end up under the surgeon’s...

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to...

No one looks or feels attractive when angry.

It’s neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God’s Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out...

It is less mortifying to believe one’s self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

The false face had been handsome, yes, but consciously so. As though he was too aware of his own attractivensss, something she found distinctly unappealing.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

ျမနႏၵာ၏ ပံုတူမ်ား ဆြဲၿပီးလွ်င္ အိပ္ရာေခါင္းရင္း၌ စီတန္းခ်ိတ္ဆြဲႏိုင္မည္။ သာမန္လူအေပါင္းတို႔ ေစာ္ကားျခင္းမွ ကင္းလြတ္ရန္ ဖဲလိုက္ကာျဖဴျဖင့္ေတာ့ ဖံုးအုပ္ထားမည္။ တစ္ကိုယ္ေကာင္းဆန္လို၍ေတာ့ မဟုတ္။

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and...

Clichés so often befall vain people.

I’m pretty much a goddess around here.

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to...

Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed