She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

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.

Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual. Our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning – and noting hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe absolute

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in.

Food and pubs go together like frogs and lawnmowers, vampires and tanning salons, mittens and Braille. Pubs don’t do food; they offer internal mops and vomit decoration

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique – and insignificant.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pelé.

Honesty and love. Frankness and truthfulness to myself and to the one I love. Truthful between two as one. You are part of my life, no pride, vanity, or anger involved.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.