Conscience Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— William Shakespeare

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.…

— Dennis Lehane

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

— Jane Austen

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

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

— Taylor Swift

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