Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. Louis Kronenberger

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What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about. Bertrand Russell

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We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. Jack Gardner

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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. Muhammad Ali

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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. Thomas More

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We say little if not egged on by vanity. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. Anthony Trollope

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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by 'vanity' only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing. Yousef Karsh

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It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Mirrors are dangerous things. They can just as easily tell us what we don't like as what we do. Yet in truth you can't tell anything from a reflection, as a reflection is actually empty. Susie Staplehurst

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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. Dennis Lehane

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There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't. Rabih Alameddine

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Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. Hugh Blair

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However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations. Alexandre Dumas

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. William Wordsworth

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My strict hand / Was made to cease on vice, and with a gripe / Squeeze out the humour of such spongy souls, / As lick up every idle vanity. William Wordsworth

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Nothing is more foolish than a security built upon the world and its promises, for they are all vanity and a lie. Matthew Henry

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At all times but especially now, it is pertinent to say, 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'. St. John Chrysostom

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Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said of us. Joseph Rickaby

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Vain thoughts defile the heart as well as vile thoughts. William Secker

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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way. Psalm 119:37

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All is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust and all turn to dust again. Ecclesiaster 3:19-20

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We know nothing vainer than the minds of men. John Calvin

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Do not concern yourself with anxiety for the show of a great name. Thomas a Kempis

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