William Hazlitt Quotes

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 loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

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

I'm vain.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

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.

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 a motive of immense potency.

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.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

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

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

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

Vanity is but the surface.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

I have a lot of vanity.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

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

I have been vain since birth.

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.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.