Quotes About Vanity

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Robert Redford used to be such a handsome man and now look at him: everything has dropped, expanded and turned a funny color.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.

He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.