Joanna Baillie Quotes

I'm vain.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

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

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I have a lot of vanity.

I have been vain since birth.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Vanity is but the surface.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Vanity is my favourite sin.