Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.
. . . but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity. And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?
I have a lot of vanity.
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.