Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.

Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.