Admirable Quote by Walter J. Phillips

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

— Joanna Baillie

And not a vanity is given in vain.

— Alexander Pope

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 easily duped. Ambition, not.

— Mason Cooley

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with…

— Jacques Barzun

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself…

— Denis Diderot

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for…

— David Hume