All Quotes

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.
‐‐ Jeremy Jackson

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

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

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

Vanity is but the surface.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Vanity is my favourite sin.
‐‐ Al Pacino

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
‐‐ George Sand

'Vanity' means worthlessness.
‐‐ Vanity

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

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.
‐‐ Evan Williams

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
‐‐ Vanity

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

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
‐‐ Aberjhani

Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
‐‐ Daniel Gilbert

Variety is important when it comes to exercise. I don't do anything that bores me to tears.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
‐‐ Rudolf Arnheim

Variety is the soul of pleasure.
‐‐ Aphra Behn

Variety is the spice of love.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
‐‐ Jean Paul

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
‐‐ George Whitefield

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
‐‐ Park Geun-hye

Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.
‐‐ John Shimkus

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
‐‐ Ellen Terry

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson