Certain Quote by Anonymous

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Luc de Clapiers

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never…

— William Penn

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

— Max Beerbohm

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality…

— Baruch Spinoza

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Berthold Auerbach

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions…

— William Hazlitt

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson