Quotes About Self-importance

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

The mother of creation is vanity.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!