Self-Display Quotes

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

It took a lot of years for me to get comfortable, strutting my stuff, dancing like a fool, having that sparkly dress on that says, 'Here I am.'

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.

I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there's a sense that everyone's uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there's kind of a piece of glory for everyone.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

I had good legs, and I loved showing them off.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

There's a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing them that there's a different way and many perceptions of beauty. You may not be feeling it inside, but if you display it like you mean it, then it can give permission to be kind to ourselves and embrace our individuality.

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.