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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.