Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing.

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

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Vanity is the greatest of all flatterers.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

He wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.