Quotes About Vanity

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be "lovers of themselves" (2 Tim. 3:2).

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.