Rex Stout Quotes

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

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

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

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.

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.

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

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

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

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

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?

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.