“There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.”
William Saroyan
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“There was no end to his vanity.”
David Lange
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde