Quotes About Egotism

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,

who's-the-biggest-cunt contest, wouldn't you say?" Shivers slowly nodded. "A real arsehole's parade." "But then the arseholes tend to win, don't they?

"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it partly that kind of practical philosophy which, reducing Egotism to a system, looks upon society as a war of cunning; success the rule of right and wrong, honesty as an affair of taste or decency: and the world as the patrimony of clever scoundrels.))

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

I am holier than thou.

He is a king over all the children of pride.

On the one hand, they're monstrous egotists. Self-confidence, self-examination, self-hatred even … but it's all about self. All those hours on their own! And yet at the same time, they're genuinely altruistic. All they want to do is please other people. I've often thought it must demand a sort of deficiency to be a writer.

Preachers love only their own voices.

I'm too handsome for God to send me to hell. The rest of you are in for it, though.

Bumptious people talk big words only till they are able to show often their face along with it for merely own praise.

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.

the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

All Pennella ever did was brag about places he'd visited, money he spent, and people he met.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

Why do I always have to be right?

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it