Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

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

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

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

There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.