Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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.
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.