Meghan Daum Quotes

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Clearly I've got an ego.

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.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

I have been vain since birth.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

'Vanity' means worthlessness.

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

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

I'm vain.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.