Self-love
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 697.
Self-Love
- Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
- Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Chapter XV.
- He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter XXXIII.
- Wer sich nicht zu viel dünkt ist viel mehr als er glaubt.
- He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa, III.
- A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
- William Hazlitt, Table Talk, On the Look of a Gentleman.
- Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 3.
- Voyez le beau rendez-vous qu'il me donne; cet homme là n'a jamais aimé que lui-même.
- Behold, the fine appointment he makes with me; that man never did love any one but himself.
- Mme. de Maintenon, when Louis XIV. in dying said, "Nous nous renverrons bientôt." (We shall meet again).
- Ofttimes nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well manag'd.- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VIII, line 571.
- Le moi est haïssable.
- Egoism is hateful.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées Diverses.
- To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle I, line 11.
- But respect yourself most of all.
- Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans.
- * Sans doute
Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute. - Without doubt
I can teach crowing: for I gobble.- Rostand—Chanticleer, Act I, scene 2.
- Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire,
Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire,
Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement,
M'obéit.- And sounding in advance its victory,
My song jets forth so clear, so proud, so peremptory.
That the horizon, seized with a rosy trembling,
Obeys me. - Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3.
- And sounding in advance its victory,
- * Je recule
Ébloui de me voir moi même tout vermeil
Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
- I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,
At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise. - Rostand—Chanticleer, Act II, scene 3.
- I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red,
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.- William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act II, scene 4, line 74.
- O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself.
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 312.
- I to myself am dearer than a friend.
- William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 6, line 23.
- I am the most concerned in my own interests.
- Terence, Andria, IV. 1.
- L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais.
- Offended self-love never forgives.
- Vizée—Les Aveux Difficiles, VII.
- This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind:—it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
- Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Self-Love.