Quotes on vanity
Vanity is the quicksand of reason
Sand, George
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Wolfe, Thomas
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Conrad, Joseph
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Pascal, Blaise
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
Adams, John
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
Chesterfield, Earl of
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Twain, Mark
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Bergson, Henri
If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La