Quotes about van
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
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.
vanity giving stories
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. Jackie DeShannon
vanity unbearable wounds
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vanity giving generosity
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
vanity giving may
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
vanity littles speak
We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
vanity doe virtue
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
vanity giving liberality
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
vanity people insufferable
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
vanity people malice
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
vanity coins flattery
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
vanity littles doe
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
vanity funeral honor
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
vanity virtue company
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
vanity weight kind
I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Jeremy London
vanity reason quicksand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand
vanity vices slave
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
vanity betray manage
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us. Christopher Fry
vanity reputation fame
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana
vanity support forgiving
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
vanity contempt behinds
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Friedrich Nietzsche
vanity charming
I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities. Jeff Lindsay
vanity soul forget
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa
vanity profound effort
We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
vanity too-much abstinence
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Francis Quarles
vancouver population grew
I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there. Grimes
vanity ifs who-you-are
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. Gregory Peck