Here are some vanity quotes that I found inspiring.
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld
“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person”
~ Mark Twain
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
~Mark Twain
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
~Vincent Van Gogh
We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld
Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
~ William Shakespeare
“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is “lighter than vanity.”
~John Bunyan
“The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”
~Maria Mitchell
“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice”
~ Walter Savage Landor
“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~George Savile
“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity”
~Jean de la Bruyere
“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this”
~ Blaise Pascal
“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
~John Keats
Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~George Eliot
“Religion is the highest vanity.”
~ Hebbel
A man’s own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
~Honore de Balzac