Quotes About Self-importance

People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

hommes sont si prévisibles que je les admire de se prendre tant au sérieux.

Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at all.

Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.

Have we gotten too full of ourselves? Possibly.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

I don't feel like I'm important enough to do a damn biopic, like who would want to see that?

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.

What a goddamn egomaniac. King Bullet is one prancing show pony show-off.

Entitlement is a contagious, insidious state of mind that has infected a whole generation of young people who feel they deserve things based on who they think they are or who their parents are. Or who they've been told they are. Entitlement also afflicts adults, who feel they should have or get things based on their friends having them or just feeling worthy. It's hard to pinpoint the derivation of where and when the disease started, but it's an epidemic.

They're too busy building monuments to themselves.

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

An author, when he first appears in the world, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

Man had to hang on to his pride.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.