To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. - William Penn
To feel vanity on account of anything, is proving that we are not accustomed to it. - Pierre Claude Victoire Boiste
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. - Max Beerbohm
Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is. - Chamfort
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
Vanity blossoms but bares no fruit. - Nepalese Proverb
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. - Julian Casablancas
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. - William Hazlitt
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. - Dennis Lehane
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us. - Arthur Lynch
Vanity is often so excessive, that those who are compelled to walk on crutches would fain make us believe they are raised on stilts. - Eliza Cook
Vanity is often the unseen spur. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired – even I who write this, and you who read this. - Blaise Pascal
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world. - Lord Greville
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - George Sand
Vanity is what makes the man in a rut think he's in the groove. - Evan Esar
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad
Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief. - Jane Austen
Vanity's a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs and chuck us over; but Pride's a fine horse, who will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow travelers.... How often have you read of people rising from nothing, and becoming great men? This was from talent, sure enough; but it was talent with pride to force it onward, not talent with vanity to check it. - Frederick Marryat
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
We say little if not egged on by vanity. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. - Jack Gardner
What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. - L’estrange
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