Harold Brodkey Quotes

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Vanity is but the surface.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

I have been vain since birth.

Egos turn me off, big time.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.