Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep…

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

— Roger L'Estrange

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

— La Rocherfoucauld

“Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;”

— Italo Svevo

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own

— François De La Rochefoucauld

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through…

— Nikolai Gogol

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

— Victor Hugo

“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the…

— Honoré de Balzac

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.

— Roger Ailes

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and…

— Dale Carnegie