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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

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

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.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.