W. H. Auden Quotes

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

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.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

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

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

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.

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

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

I've always been a narcissist.

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.

Actors are all narcissists.

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

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

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.