Believe Quote by Gustave Flaubert

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.…

— Daphne du Maurier

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could…

— Anonymous

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to…

— Jonathan Franzen

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

— Mark Twain

“He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge,…

— Anonymous

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

— Alexander Pope

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

— Lisa Kleypas