Quotes about Vanity

Stephanie: Really, Mrs Durant. Your teeth are more important than your hair.
Mrs. Durant: You really believe that, don't you. Sad.

- Irene Hervey (as Mrs. Durant) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Heathcliff: Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity.

- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Addison DeWitt: We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don't blow them, who else will?

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

Margo Channing: She thinks only of me, doesn't she?
Birdie: Well, let's say she thinks only about you, anyway.
Margo Channing: How do you mean that?
Birdie: I'll tell you how: like... like she's studying you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints - how you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep...
Margo Channing: I'm sure that's very flattering, Birdie. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it.

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Margo Channing: Margo Channing is ageless - spoken like a press agent.
Lloyd Richards: I know what I'm talking about. After all, they're my plays.
Margo Channing: Spoken like an author. Lloyd, I'm not twenty-ish, I'm not thirty-ish. Three months ago I was forty years old. Forty. Four O. That slipped out. I hadn't quite made up my mind to admit it. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Willie Stark: Now, shut up! Shut up, all of you! Now listen to me, you hicks. Yeah, you're hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand times like they fooled me. But this time, I'm going to fool somebody. I'm going to stay in this race. I'm on my own and I'm out for blood.

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

[to his fellow 'hicks' after surviving an impeachment trial in the state senate]
Willie Stark: They tried to ruin me, but they are ruined. They tried to ruin me because they didn't like what I have done. Do you like what I've done?

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

Willie Stark: It could have been - whole world - Willie Stark.

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

Willie Stark: I'm the hick they were gonna use to split the hick vote. But I'm standing right here now on my hind legs! Even a dog can learn to do that. Are you standing on your hind legs? Have you learned to do that yet?

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

Sadie Burke: He'll ditch everybody in the whole world, because that's what Willie wants. Nobody in the world but him!

- Mercedes McCambridge (as Sadie Burke) in All the King's Men (1949)