Clive James Quotes

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

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.

One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

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

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

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

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

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.