Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.
I like meeting people, cause they tell me I'm pretty, and I just have to say thank you a lot.
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you're young. It's a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I've always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don't be obsessed with it.
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.
I find that men are far more vain than women.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
