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 There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.
  Helen Hayes

 Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
  Jane Austen

 Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's inauguration.
  Conan O'Brien

 Vanity is a motive of immense potency.
  Bertrand Russell

 Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this
  Blaise Pascal

 Vanity is the quicksand of reason
  George Sand

 Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory
  Joseph Conrad

 Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it

 Vanity, like murder, will out

 Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
  Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

 We speak little if not egged on by vanity
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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