Quotes About Self-importance

They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

A todos nos hace falta que se burlen de nosotros de cuando en cuando, lord Mormont. De lo contrario, empezamos a tomarnos demasiado en serio. Tyrion Lannister

In his experience, entities that spoke in such a high-toned manner tended to have an acute regard for themselves that was inversely matched by a lack of concern for the comfort of those who minioned for them—indeed, even for their continued existence.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

El ego, después de todo, era la raíz de todo mal.

With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we're losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Dame Alice was suffering from nothing more than an indigestion of self-importance.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn't a spoiled blond actress.