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

“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.”

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

“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaister truly!”

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

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