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.
Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
It seems to me that in every culture I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities all is vanity.'
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.