Quotes About Self-importance

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.

I was by no means free from the bigotry and hubris of consciousness which wants to believe that any halfway decent inspiration is due to one's own merit

You think very highly of yourself," Kai answered, equally quietly, but far more deadly, "if you believe that it doesn't matter.

The world has no place for those who are proud.

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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

She has a high opinion of herself," Andrea said. "Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.

It's truly rare to find a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice as much as you do.

My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person.

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

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

My motto is "my principal activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

My ego says it must be me they're after

La razza umana esagera tutto: i propri eroi, i propri nemici, la propria importanza. Lo sapevate che i gatti dormono venti ore su ventiquattro? Non c'è da stupirsi che abbiano un aspetto migliore del mio.

Ngu d?t má»›i là th? hay sinh ra sá»± tá»± ph? ch? không ph?i là tri th?c.