VANITY, VANITY, ALL IS VANITY

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There is nothing so agonizing to the
 fine skin of vanity as the application
 of a rough truth.

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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There are no grades of vanity,

there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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In heaven I yearn for knowledge,
 account all else inanity;.

On earth I confess an itch for
 the praise of fools - that's vanity.

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Robert Browning

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The offspring of riches:

 Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.

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Mark Twain
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Vanity, like murder, will out.
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Hannah Parkhouse Cowley
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Vanity of vanaties, saith the Preacher,

vanity of vanaties; all is vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

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