"Vanity, like murder, will out." - Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem

"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"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." - Blaise Pascal

"Self-love seems so often unrequited." - Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers." - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself." - Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams

"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH, Aphorisms