Ifs Quote by Washington Allston

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out…

— Jonathan Swift

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

— Max Beerbohm

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

— Michel de Montaigne

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

“The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary, to regard…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

— Vincent Voiture

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never…

— William Penn

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

— James Anthony Froude

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly…

— Jonathan Swift

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere