Quotes about van
vanity knows ifs
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. Don DeLillo
vanity mirrors looks
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear. Andy Whitfield
vanity done vexation
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit. Anne Bronte
vanilla
My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box. Al Roker
vanity modesty sometimes
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Anna Jameson
vanguard
Vanguard won't let you get away with anything. Gary Smith
vanity wife president
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration. Conan O'Brien
vanity giving use
What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch. Danny Boyle
vanity people speech
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. David Frum
vanity political politics
All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. David Steel
vanity
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Ludwig Wittgenstein
vanity air
They who prosper take on airs of vanity. Aeschylus
vanity larger-than-life problem
I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem. Bette Davis
vanity age three
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan
vanity potency motive
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Bertrand Russell
vanity wish trouble
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
vanity people would-be
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.
vanity satisfaction needs
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
vanishing causes fit
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful. George Eliot
vanity noses conceit
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
vanilla whatever
I'll have a vanilla... one of those vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing. Whatever you got. Larry David
vanilla
I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that. Chris Stapleton
vanity contentment looks
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment. Hannah More
vanity faults littles
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
vanity lust female
The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her. Florence King
vanity filling-up want
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. Florence Nightingale
vanity worst hardest
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. Flannery O'Connor
vanity purpose virtue
Purpose without virtue is vanity. Fernando Torres
vanity mind vexation
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation. Helen Keller
vanity literature complacency
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. Franz Kafka
vanity important lines
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. Jason Patric
vanity people feelings
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
vanity
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Evelyn Waugh