Alfred de Musset Quotes

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

I have a lot of vanity.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

I have been vain since birth.

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

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Every one thinks highly of his own

If Irrfan plans to make a movie on me, I will be the hero of the movie, as I feel that no one better than me.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Vanity is not important to me.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Clearly I've got an ego.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.