Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
I don't really read that many magazines; I'm more of a browser. I get 'Vanity Fair' quite often if I'm on a train.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
