Vanity

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. – African Proverb

Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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

Looking at yourself in a mirror isnt exactly a study of life. – Lauren Bacall

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:7 – Bible

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

Dont 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

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

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

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot