Censorship is the height of vanity.
Martha Graham

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason
George Sand

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.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Thomas Wolfe

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Mark Twain

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Antonio Porchia

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.

Beauty’s sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
Mark Twain

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
John Adams

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Thomas E. Lawrence

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.
Miguel De Unamuno

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
Lord Chesterfield

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
Rebecca H. Davis

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

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.
James Madison

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Henri Bergson

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

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

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger

Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse – why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity;
On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools – that’s vanity.
Robert Browning

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Benjamin Franklin

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed