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| A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are | | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis | | Samuel Johnson | |
| God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person | | Mark Twain | |
| He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity | | Bible | |
| I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. (Psalms 31:6) | | Bible | |
| I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| 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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| That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny | | Mark Twain | |
