Quotes About Self-importance

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic, sound-bite-spewing sewage rats that surround them can stuff it. They are the wrong stuff, and their self-glorification is an obscenity. No matter what they say of themselves, they are not that important.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

He sighed. "So I've gone and revealed how much I admire your work for nothing. Now you'll feel free to laze about self-importantly, I suppose!" "Viridius, no," I said, stepping toward him and impulsively kissing his balding head. "I'm well aware that that's your job." "Damned right," he grumpily. "And I've earned it, too.

Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.

I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

Vanity is but the surface.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

Les gens, continue Lalix, ils se croient des petites merveilles, tout ce qu'ils font, tout ce qu'ils sont. Ils s'attribuent une importance... Alors, s'il fallait, par-dessus, encaisser le récit de leurs rêves, on n'en finirait plus.

It's deplorable that academia should prostitute itself, but there it is. Not even Harvard is above it. In fact, Harvard least of all, with that ludicrous delusion of self-importance that makes every Harvard professor feel he's a public intellectual, qualified to comment on issues far beyond his expertise.

Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his attempt to make his stiff hand supple, from a careless flash of his careful black eyes, it can be seen that he is taking the cheers of the crowd with a childish seriousness. It is touching, like a girl putting full faith in the compliments that are paid to her at a ball.

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.