Acquaintance Quote by Jeremy Collier

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

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

— Jane Austen

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 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 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

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

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

— William Shakespeare