Quotes About Egotism

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

An egoist is someone who doesn't think about me...

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.

4. Politicians: Insufferable egotists pretending to be "public servants.

It has always seemed strange to me…. The things we admire in men—kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling—are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest—sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest—are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second." —John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

The arrogance of these people!

The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.

don't waste your time being impressed by people (usually men) who are already adequately impressed by themselves.

I'm the f*cking end-all, be-all of music.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.

Hubris is an inflated sense of one's own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than to actual accomplishments. It

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

Under all his culture, his cleverness, his amenity, under his good-nature, his facility, his knowledge of life, his egotism lay hidden like a serpent in a bank of flowers.

His egotism lay like a serpent in a bank of flowers.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me.

Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way – even when it clearly is not – is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.