George Santayana Quotes

I have a lot of vanity.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

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

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Vanity is but the surface.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

One may be humble out of pride.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.