Quotes of: Vanity Keyword

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Gone with the Wind

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

Gwen Stefani

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.

Daphne Guinness

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Middlemarch

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

November

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

Love Exactly

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Vanity Fair

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Vanity Fair

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Vanity Fair

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Vanity Fair

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

Macbeth

At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.

Norman Mailer

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shirley Knight

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Theodore Bikel

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

T.S. Eliot

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

Tiffany Madison

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Matthew Hale

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity. Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan