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 Austin
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
Jonathan Swift
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
Heinrich Heine
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.
Hugh Blair
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
William Shakespeare
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen