Boast Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I want to say to our Relief Societies, our Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations and our Primary Associations that I desire and sincerely hope…

— Joseph F. Smith

“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

“His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous,…

— Joseph Heller

“That is the body of Chrysostom, who was unrivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without…

— Miguel De Cervantes

“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures…

— Marcel Proust

“To vain men, other people are admirers.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying…

— Diane Setterfield

“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for all men,…

— John Ruskin

“Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything…

— Victor Hugo

“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who…

— Jim Tully

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

— Gilbert Ryle