Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. – Will Smith
Silly talk is a sign of shallowness. Foolish vanity is a mark of stupidity. – Dr T.P.Chia
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen
Vanity is the quicksand of reason. – George Sand
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Tom Wolfe
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. – Samuel Butler
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. – Julian Casablancas
Vanity is great motivation, to be fair. – Matthew McConaughey
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. – Wallace D. Wattles
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. – Tennessee Williams
The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The fly on the water buffalo’s back thinks he is taller than the water buffalo.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. – Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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