Decent man Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

“It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him…

— Yoshida Kenko

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The vain man does not think he is vain.”

— Gilbert Ryle

“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies…

— Oscar Wilde

“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.”

— Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

“Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy’s side with the obvious reminder…

— C.S. Lewis

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think…

— Jane Austen

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot…

— Oscar Wilde

“modern man is the victim of his own disillusionment; he has been disinherited by his own analytic strength.”

— Ernest Becker

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray