Antidote Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— William Shakespeare

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the…

— Elizabeth Smart

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 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

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Generally speaking, the term, 'vanity,' itself can be perceived as negative, superficial and egotistical, but I see it as being unapologetic for celebrating other…

— BeBe Zahara Benet

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

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

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

— Myrtle Reed