Mark Twain Quotes

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

I have a lot of vanity.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

I have been vain since birth.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

I'm vain.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

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

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

My ego is sated.

I am self-centred. I just adore myself.