“Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
Mark Twain
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.”
Aristotle
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
Jane Austen
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
