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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?

There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

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.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.