Accepting Quote by Moss Hart

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 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

“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

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing;…

— David Foster Wallace

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have…

— Blaise Pascal

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

“A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.”

— Julia Joanne Black

“Vanity is of no value”

— Anonymous

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

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and…

— Roald Dahl

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad