“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
“But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.”
“I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-""Well deserved, sir. Well deserved.""And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be run down because of it.”
“Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind 'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind' ”
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .”
“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.”