Quotes of: Vanity Keyword

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Jackie DeShannon

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

Jason Patric

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

John Rhys-Davies

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

José de Alencar

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

Joel Edgerton

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Jeremy London

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

Salma Hayek

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Maude Lebowski: My father's weakness is vanity, hence the slut.

The Big Lebowski

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Loni Anderson

SONG OF DAWN I saw the sun rise by accident. It was a horrible sight. Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge in a moist pillow, and lay there, alone, at the dawn of another day, that brought me closer to another death, pondering the vanity of my so...

Antiepithalamia: & Other Poems of Regret & Resentment

Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. “The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you ...

A Ring of Endless Light

I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and diabolical. As I sketched in the dragon's face, I gave her eyebr...

Tell Me a Secret

Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybod...

Vanity Fair

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Vanity Fair

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Rebecca Harding Davis