Vanity

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat