Vanity Quotes

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

Michel de Montaigne

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'Vanity' means worthlessness.

Vanity

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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

Tavi Gevinson

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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

Natasha Little

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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

Iman

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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. Lawrence

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I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.

Jennifer Garner

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They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

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I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be so busy collecting awards! I'd be posing for the cover of 'Vanity Fair!'

Ann Coulter

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I should have more vanity.

Amy Brenneman

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Tom Wolfe

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My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Michael Zaslow

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When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

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

Jason Patric

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My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

Bryan Burrough

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It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

Pete Burns

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Censorship is the height of vanity.

Martha Graham

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

James Fenton

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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Gerard Way

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Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Eric Ries

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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

Elisabeth Moss

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