"I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Vanity Quotes #Vain Quotes

“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.”
“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.”
“We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones!”

Source : "Zosia Mamet Says You Don’t Have To Be Hillary, Bey Or Oprah To Be Successful" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.
“I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.”

Source : "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.
“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
“Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along andâ€¦sweep you off your feet?â€ She gave a short laugh. â€œIf the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, Iâ€™m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.”
“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”
“In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.”

Source : Hugh Leonard (1989). “Out after dark”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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