Quotes About Vanity

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.