Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

If someone was like, 'Describe yourself in one word,' I would never say, 'Handsome.'

I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.