Vanity Quotes

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

George Eliot

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Sir Matthew Hale

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7

Bible

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Gore Vidal

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

Samuel Hoffenstein

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

George Eliot

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

George Eliot

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Elizabeth Smart

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Martin Luther

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe, it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

William Shakespeare

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

William Shakespeare

Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Pau (Pablo) Casals, Salute to Li

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Oscar Wilde

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)

Charles Dickens