We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
William E. Woodward
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness
Thomas Wolfe
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
Mark Twain
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
Joseph Addison
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.
Jane Austen
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
Mark Twain
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory
Joseph Conrad
Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
Bertrand Russell
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
Bertrand Russell
Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible.
Sir Richard Steele
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
William Makepeace Thackeray