Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

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

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd.

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

I always Google myself. It's horrible.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.