Vanity Quotes

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who

Bertrand Russell

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

English Proverb

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

Max L. Forman

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Francis Bacon

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Ambrose Bierce

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Leo Tolstoy

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

W. H. Auden

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

Garry Shandling

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Iris Murdoch

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.

African Proverb

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

Samuel Johnson

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Thomas Traherne

Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker whether he does good or ill, the astonishing exception, the superbeast and almost-god, the meaning of creation which cannot be thought away, the solution of the cosmic riddle, the mighty ruler over nature and the despiser of it, the creature which calls its history world history!--Vanitas vanitatum homo.

Friedrich Nietzsche