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Quotes About Self-importance

I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fine, then, stay here and keep our seats warm while your ass expands to the size of your ego. (Todd)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Being an arrogant braggart just doesn't work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.
~ Paris Hilton
Life's all about 'me' anyway
~ Paul Arden
There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.
~ Stanley Donen
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
~ Stefanie Schneider
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
~ John Keats
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
~ Jonathan Swift
I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.
~ Karan Patel
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
~ George Eliot
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
~ George Eliot
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
~ George Eliot
Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
~ George Eliot
You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
~ George Eliot
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
~ George Eliot
If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.
~ Edward N. Ney
I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.
~ Tom Brady
Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.
~ Natasia Demetriou
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
~ Samuel Butler
The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
~ Samuel Butler
Jo, you're you. And that's as important as you want to make it.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"
~ Margaret Maron