Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

— Sophocles

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

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

After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any…

— Charles Kingsley

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

— Ovid

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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