self-liking

Updated: June 18, 2025

He wears his apparel much after the fashion; his means will not suffer him to come too nigh. They afford him mock-velvet or satinisco, but not without the college's next lease's acquaintance. His inside is of the self-same fashion, not rich; but as it reflects from the glass of self-liking, there Croesus is Irus to him.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century

Mandeville draws a nice distinction between self-love, and, what he calls, self-liking. In us, it is accompanied with an apprehension that we do overvalue ourselves; hence our susceptibility to the confirmatory good opinion of others. But if each were to display openly his own feeling of superiority, quarrels would inevitably arise.

Alexander Bain - Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics