How to deal with pride and vanity from a Buddhist perspective?

In my interactions with other people I am sometimes very full of my self, proud and vanitous and it leaves me with a bad taste afterwards or it even stops me from taking action in a direction I would desire. Do you know any examples in the Suttas where these conditions of the mind are treated? I am thinking about the perception of a skeleton as a helpful aid in this matter but maybe there are others.