self-flattery Quotes

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Compliments make me vain: and when I am vain, I am insolent and overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot