Quotes of: Vanity Keyword

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love

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

Skins, Animal Stories

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

The Sun Watches the Sun

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Pensées

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

John Leslie

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Pope Francis

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

Richard Avedon

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

Jean Simmons

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

Paul Feig

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Jennifer Garner

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Cherie Lunghi

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Jorge Luis Borges

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

Gwendoline Riley

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne

O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty? I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riche...

Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Writings

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that are important. … it's vanity.

City of Stairs