We are so vain that we care about the opinions of the one that don't matter to us.
Quotes:
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
