Easy Quote by Bertrand Russell

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

— Joanna Baillie

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with…

— Jacques Barzun

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

— Walter J. Phillips

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its…

— Alexander Smith

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And not a vanity is given in vain.

— Alexander Pope

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

— Oscar Wilde

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift