Quotes About Self-importance

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

I am holier than thou.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

This was Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica ("big nose"). A senior politician who had held all the great offices of state and was now pontifex maximus, or high priest, he had a high opinion of himself: at a noisy public meeting, he once said, "Be quiet, please, citizens. I know more about the public interest than you do.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

When you are a crank, you put yourself on the top of the list of people you make miserable.

it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

N'importe quoi dans la vanité c'est mieux que rien

He is a guy without collective importance. He is just an individual.

If you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity

the sense of entitlement [...] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world

Modesty isn't always a virtue

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror.

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.