Richard Steele Quotes

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.