The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.