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| "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." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |  |
| And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world? | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | |
| Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. | Jane Austen | Emma | |
| . . . vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return . . . | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | |
| "Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory . . . " | Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim | |
| It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
| Our vanities differ as our noses do . . . | George Eliot | Middlemarch | |
| Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
| No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
