Howard Jacobson Quotes

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.

Pride is an amazing thing.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

People should just get over themselves.

Who wouldn't fall in love with me?

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

I've never been a big fan of me, me, me.

I'm vain.

I don't want this to come out the wrong way, but in the '60s and '70s, I don't know anybody who was known around the world like I was.

I want the whole country to love me and I have no qualms in admitting it.

People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.

I don't want to force my vibe on anyone, but you've got to learn to love yourself, as opposed to being in love with yourself.

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

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

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

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

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.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.