“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
Helen Rowland
“Lust is vanity of a fool's desire.”
Jeremiah Billiot
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
