Howard Jacobson Quotes

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

People are going to give me the respect I deserve.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

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

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

I should have more vanity.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.

Every one thinks highly of his own

My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.