Conceit
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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From worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great is that of being always right.
Conceit, Mistakes, Self-righteous
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When you find yourself sinking as you walk across a pond, you will know that you have fallen into your own hubris.
Conceit, Hubris, Self delusion
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He was a Dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world
Conceit, Drama, Theatre, Writers
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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I summed up all systems in a phrase and all existence in an epigram.
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I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
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The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said ‘What a dust do I raise’.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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To the brazen, everything is brass.
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He is the kind of man who will end up dying in his own arms.
[on Warren Beatty]
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Conceit is God’s gift to little men.
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What’s the difference between God and Bono? God doesn’t walk down Grafton Street mumbling he’s Bono.
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.
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He has delusions of adequacy.
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t have many rivals.
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I sometimes look at the stars and think: how significant am I.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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One of the stages of life that Shakespeare missed out in his Seven ages of Man is that moment when one decides that one is terribly good at one’s job and everyone else is hopeless.
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If you have bright plumage, people will take pot shots at you.
