Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

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

An empty man is full of himself.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

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.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

I’m conceited, I got a reason

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

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

I have a lot of vanity.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

I was a big-headed little guy.

I'm vain.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.