Conceit
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I wear my enemies like medals.
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Oh wad some power, the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us.
It wad frae money a blunder free us
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion.
Conceit, Self awareness, Self Criticism, Vanity
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There is such a thing is over-capitalising the A in artist.
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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.
