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Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
-John Ruskin
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
-William Shakespeare
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
-William Shakespeare
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
-William Shakespeare
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
-Garry Shandling
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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
-Elizabeth Smart
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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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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
-Madame Swetchine
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
-Jonathan Swift
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
-Thomas Szasz
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
-Leo Tolstoy
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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
-Thomas Traherne
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
-Harry S Truman
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
-Mark Twain
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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
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Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
-Johnny Unitas
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Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.
-Source Unknown
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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.
-Source Unknown
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
-Gore Vidal
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In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe, it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
-Rebecca West
The Thinking Reed 1936, Chapter 10
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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
-Walt Whitman
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Books about Vanity
