Quote by Jane Austen

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in…

— Jane Austen

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity”

— Ecclesiastes 7:5

“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.”

— Vinita Kinra

“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers,…

— Blaise Pascal

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“In my end is my beginning. —T. S. Eliot”

— Carl E. Olson

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

— Gustave Flaubert

“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.”

— Raymond E. Feist

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

“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.”

— Idries Shah