There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Michel de Montaigne

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
Nigella Lawson

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!
Shirley Knight

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Robert Southey

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
Emil Zatopek

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth Smart

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
W. L. George

Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal

Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen