Imagine Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

— Vincent Voiture

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

— Luc de Clapiers

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

— Sri Aurobindo

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

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

— Michelle Pfeiffer

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

— John Ruskin

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