Vanity Quotes

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

Great, Movies, Important

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
Peter Coyote

Good, Care, Far

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.
Clive Anderson

Lost, Emotions, Television

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins

Write, Getting, Themselves

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
Dave Blood

Fool, Control, Trying

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale

Fashion, Value, Ourselves

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon

Great, Happy, Story

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.
Stone Gossard

Long, Another, Start

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

Funny, Laugh, Dead

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie

Pride, Perhaps, Starved

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger

Nothing, Others, Fact

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

Great, Men, Single

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
Shane Black

Women, Men, Mind

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Marguerite Gardiner

Respect, Ignorant, Whose

I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
Sam Trammell

Good, Live, Read

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

Love, Heart, Simple

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Sophie Swetchine

Enemy, Dignity, Constant

We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from the tree. There were three teenage girls who snuck past security and made it into the forest.
Alexander Ludwig

Past, Three, Fair

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
John Doerr

Writers, Clearly, Readers

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

Yourself, Character, Nothing

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!
Shirley Knight

Nice, Thought, Said

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
Andrew Lincoln

Different, Whole, Interest

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Evening, Before, Whole

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.
Amelie Nothomb

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.
Keith Urban

Music, Fact, Anyone

'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

Life, Time, Night

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell

Love, Power, War

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
W. L. George

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley

Knowledge, Enough, Used

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley

Life, Happiness, Ignorance

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