(225 quotes found)
“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
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
Jane Austen
“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it”
“Vanity is the polite mask of pride.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
Helen Rowland
