Joseph Conrad Quotes

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

I've always been a narcissist.

Vanity is but the surface.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

Hollywood is full of men who need wraparound mirrors so that they never have a moment when they can't check themselves out. I love guys who don't worry about what they look like, who aren't aware of how attractive they are.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.