Frederick Marryat Quotes

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I'm vain.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

I have a lot of vanity.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

I have been vain since birth.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Every one thinks highly of his own

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.