Difficult Quote by Horace Walpole

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for…

— David Hume

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,…

— William Gilmore Simms

Always remember that vanity leads to a disgusting sense of self-love, do not love yourself, love the world instead.

— Anonymous

“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go…

— Herman Melville

“Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is…

— Balroop Singh

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship…

— Emilie du Chatelet

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to…

— Octavio Paz

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

— George Eliot

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

— Alexander von Humboldt

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of…

— Samuel Johnson

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

— C. S. Lewis