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Self-Love: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?— WHITTIER — The Pageant. St. 8.
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. C.— WORDSWORTH — On the Power of Sound. St. 12.
Speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 88.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. IV.
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 376.
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 DISRAELI — Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XV.
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.— HAZLITT — Table Talk. On the Look of
a Gentleman. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 3.
To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. C.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 11.
I to myself am dearer than a friend.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 23.
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.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 312.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 74.
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 — A Philosophical Dictionary.