Gunter Grass Quotes

… the evil genius of the revolution.

In general, I can't stand people who always turn a conversation into something about them. I can't stand it when people are too into themselves.

Depending on who it is, but I can't stand men who brag about themselves, and all they do all day is talk about themselves.

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.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

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

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

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

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

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

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.

You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.