Oscar Wilde Quotes

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I don't think it's wrong to have a big ego. Sometimes a big ego can help you also.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

I should have more vanity.

I still think I am the greatest.

Every one thinks highly of his own

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.

I love hearing positive things; somewhere, way deep down, I'm sure I'm an egomaniac. I guess all performers are, in a way.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?