Vanity

(223 votes)   There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(153 votes)   Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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(141 votes)   Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Miguel De Unamuno
1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer

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(139 votes)   Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Iris Murdoch
1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher

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(138 votes)   Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(123 votes)   The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(122 votes)   Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(110 votes)   What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(109 votes)   Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
1846-1870, French Author, Poet

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(100 votes)   They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(96 votes)   If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by ''vanity'' only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Yousef Karsh

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(96 votes)   The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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(94 votes)   What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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