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1 Her vanity was stung by the sight of his unscathed smile.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2 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.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
3 Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
4 But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5 She had never before suspected the mixture of insatiable curiosity and contemptuous freedom with which she and her kind were discussed in this underworld of toilers who lived on their vanity and self-indulgence.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6 She knew that this generosity to self is one of the forms of meanness, and she resolved so to identify herself with her husband's vanity that to gratify her wishes would be to him the most exquisite form of self-indulgence.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7 No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity; and the sense of being of importance among the insignificant was enough to restore to Miss Bart the gratifying consciousness of power.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
8 He was a coarse dull man who, under all his show of authority, was a mere supernumerary in the costly show for which his money paid: surely, to a clever girl, it would be easy to hold him by his vanity, and so keep the obligation on his side.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
9 It was part of the game to make him feel that her appeal had been an uncalculated impulse, provoked by the liking he inspired; and the renewed sense of power in handling men, while it consoled her wounded vanity, helped also to obscure the thought of the claim at which his manner hinted.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7