Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Vanity is but the surface.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Of course I have an ego.