A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by ''vanity'' only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.