Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

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

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

One can never outlive one's vanity.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.