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.
Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
It seems to me that in every culture I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities all is vanity.'
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
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?
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men?
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Magnanimous people have no vanity they have no jealousy and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more they find it everywhere.