Leon Trotsky Quotes

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

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

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Clearly I've got an ego.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

I think I look good. I think I look real good.

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

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

I know I am very beautiful.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I should have more vanity.