To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

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.

It is not love we should have painted as blind, but self-love.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

One must learn to love oneself ... with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we have a more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage-he won't encounter many rivals.

What is an obstacle in our loving men is the love they have for themselves, which is touchy, exclusive, inordinate, tragic. We could never love them as much as that.