Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Self-love, Self-lovers

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire (though) it were but to roast their eggs.Bacon.

Of all mankind each loves himself the best.Terence.

Self-love and self-conceit fills the land with fools.German.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.Goethe.

Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.Rochefoucauld.

Self-love is a mote in every man’s eye.

Self-love is a thief.German.

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

Self-love—nobody’s else love.Dutch.