A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
Leighton Meester
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
Rebecca Harding Davis
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas Chamfort
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan P. Smith
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed
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