Creatures Quote by William Penn

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

— Max Beerbohm

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to…

— Berthold Auerbach

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

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but,…

— Hannah Woolley

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

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

— Emily Bronte

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness,…

— Han Fei