Vanity Quotes

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

Graydon Carter

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Elizabeth Smart

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Vanity is but the surface.

Blaise Pascal

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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

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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

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There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Helen Hayes

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Yousuf Karsh

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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

Vanity

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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

Vanity

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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

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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

Natalie Portman

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I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.

Karan Johar

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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

Dan Jenkins

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It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

Joel Kinnaman

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

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So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Andy Whitfield

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

John Rhys-Davies

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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Shirley MacLaine

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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Jean de la Bruyere

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In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Donald G. Mitchell

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