“All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity”
John Oliver Hobbes
“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
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it”
“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
