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Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
-African Proverb
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Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
-English Proverb
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
-Proverb
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
-W. H. Auden
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
-Lauren Bacall
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
-Francis Bacon
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
-George Bancroft
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
-Max Beerbohm
Quia Imperfection And Even Now (1920)
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See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7
-Bible
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
-Ambrose Bierce
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
-Pau (Pablo) Casals
Salute to Life (1969)
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
-Lord Chesterfield
Letter to his son, December 19, 1749
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
-Leonardo DaVinci
note book
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
-Philip K. Dick
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
-George Eliot
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
-George Eliot
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
-George Eliot
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Books about Vanity
