Horace Quotes

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.

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

I have a lot of vanity.

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

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

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

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

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.