Edmund Waller Quotes

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Nemesis follows hubris.

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go to their head.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.