Ability Quote by Christina Stead

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes…

— Jonathan Swift

“Vanity is of no value”

— Anonymous

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for…

— David Hume

“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and…

— Joseph Addison

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

— William Hazlitt

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain…

— Pascal Mercier

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself…

— Denis Diderot

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,…

— William Gilmore Simms