Elizabeth Bennet: I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different group...
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.
I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
