Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: “Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt – are not these the...
I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside; for their vanities they wear upon their hearts. Better to meet a person who wears their vanities out in the open where you can see them! Than one who hides them in their hearts! For it is the st...
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Humility is the only defence against vanity
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.