V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Vani Sarca, señores. la mujer que, cuando repartieron la integración social, estaba en casa leyendo a Salinger.”
Source: Scrivere è un mestiere pericoloso
“vanilla, chocolate, strawberry (for some unfair reason according to strawberry it is always third in that list)”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“Vanilla, for warmth and comfort. Which is what you mean to me.”
Source: King of Envy
“Vanilla lily
Meaning: Ambassador of love
Sowerbaea juncea | Eastern Australia
Perennial with edible roots found in eucalyptus forests, woodlands, heaths, and sub-alpine meadows. Grass-like leaves have a strong scent of vanilla. Flowers are pink-lilac to white, papery, with sweet vanilla perfume. Resprouts after fire.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Vanilla people were so cute sometimes.”
Source: The Siren
“Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.”
Source: Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)
“Vanished like inhibitions at a bachelorette party.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.”
Source: London Lyrics
“Vanity about physical appearance is an equal-opportunity vice; the males just target different physical traits for amplification and display using different products.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Vanity and ambition as education. - So long as a man has not yet become an instrument of general human utility let him be plagued by ambition; if that goal has been attained, however, if he is working with the necessity of a machine for the good of all, then let him be visited by vanity; it will humanize him and make him more sociable, endurable and indulgent in small things, now that ambition (to render him useful) has finished roughhewing him.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.”
“Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“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.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.”
“Vanity and validation are for the small of mind, Himalayan Human has no need for cosmetic adornment.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Vanity and validation are for the small of mind,
Himalayan Human has no need for cosmetic adornment.
The Sun is beyond the realms of humility and hubris,
I'm neither humble nor hubrous, just burning with mission.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.”
Source: George Washington: The Image and the Man
“Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?”
“Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.”
“Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”
“Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.”
“Vanity came second to survival.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”
“Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.”
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Source: The Wrecker: Stevenson's Vol. 19
“Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.”
“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”
Source: Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)
“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.”
“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.”
“Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.”
Source: Works of Captain Marryat: With Illustrations
“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
“Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.”
Source: Works
“Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.”
“Vanity is a motive of immense potency.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.”
“Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.”
“Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.”
“Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.”
Source: The House of Intellect
“Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.”
“Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.”
Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of
“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.”
Source: Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart
“Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well... Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.”
“Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.”