Quotes About Egotist

The only vowel I'm concerned with is 'I.'

an egotist addicted to obsequiousness and sycophancy who nevertheless longed for a different world, a world in which he could find exactly that man who was his equal, whom he could meet as his brother, with whom he could speak freely, teaching and learning, giving and receiving pleasure, a world in which he could forsake the gloating satisfactions of conquest for the gentler yet more taxing joys of discourse. Did such a world exist? By what road could it be reached?

an incumbent President can't help but be reelected unless he's a total incompetent, an out-and-out charlatan, an absolutely blind egotist, or a victim of circumstances for which he has to take the blame whether guilty or not. And even then he'd be an odds-on favorite if he campaigned with a certain amount of vigor.

I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.