Blaise Pascal Quotes

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

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

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

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.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

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