Harriet Jacobs 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.

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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.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

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

Vanity is but the surface.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.