If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.
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.
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.
There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.
...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.
I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.
Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.
I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.
I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy.
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.
I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.
Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off the backs of the little guy." And as a candidate, he started his campaign with a speech where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals, and he has pursued the discredited and really outrageous lie that President Obama wasn't born in the United States. It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.
Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.
