Feels Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

— Michel de Montaigne

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and…

— Joseph Addison

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

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they…

— Yousuf Karsh

“He hated his vanity, but it was a characteristic and nearly altogether unavoidable trait of the attractive. Perhaps it was self-preservation—simply his body urging…

— Molly Collier

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

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

— Michelle Pfeiffer

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Luc de Clapiers