Quotes About Self-importance

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first

You are so easily flattered, brother.' 'Because I have so many qualities to praise!

Besides, your a cat.Its your nature to think your the center of the universe. She stared at him blankly. But I am the center of the universe.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

So what do I get when I beat everyone?" I said. " When ?" Corey shook his head. "Do you need a wide-load sign for transporting that ego?

But he seemed to have a compelling need to feel special and be noticed by others all the time; and this drove him to create scenes.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. "You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.

Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.

Small things make base men proud.

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.

egocentric melodrama.

When you are a senior boy in an English Public School, you perhaps reach the pinnacle of your self-importance.

The way you can spot a false system is that the leaders require the place of honor. It is our belief that the less secure a leader is, the more important titles will be to him or her.

La mayor vanidad que hallo entre los hijos de vanidad es, no contentos ser vanos en la vida, procuran aya memoria de sus vanidades después de la muerte.

What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

bThere is, indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

While in her heart Batty knew that Ginevra was a nice person, she sometimes couldn't help wondering if nice people could also be show-offs.