Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but I'll look as best as I possibly can; I'll look surreal.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.