Admire Quote by Berthold Auerbach

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

— Luc de Clapiers

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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 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

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Max Beerbohm

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

— David Gemmell

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure…

— Benjamin Franklin

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

— Agnes Repplier

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 just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

— Helena Rubinstein