Sean O'Casey Quotes

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

One may be humble out of pride.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

I wouldn't play glamour for glamour.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.