Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life i

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
War
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Vanity
category

If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. – François de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Vanity

What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own. – François de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Vanity

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Vanity

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Vanity

Random Quotes

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. – James Monroe

Category:
alone

Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . – Maria Weston Chapman

Category:
strength

They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

Category:
Education

Shake it ’til the moon becomes the sun. – Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay,&#

Category:
Homecoming