“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”— Edward Young
“I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.”— Clark Gable
“For all that praise, which from the great descends, Points to themselves, and in themselves it ends.”— George Crabbe
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”— Blaise Pascal
“What is called liberality is often only the vanity of giving, of which we are fonder than of what we give.”— James Gould Cozzens
“It is a vulgar error to suppose that love can be gratified by vanity and selfishness.”— Margaret Fuller
“Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.”— John Webster