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

“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.”

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us”

“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.”

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”

“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”