639 Quotes About Vanity

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.