Alison Bechdel Quotes

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Isolation breeds conceit.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

I've always been a narcissist.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

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