Quotes About Vanity

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.