Quotes About Ego

Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent

but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witt

In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.

You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

Selbstsüchtige Menschen halten immer ihr eigenes Unbehagen für das Wichtigste auf der Welt.

Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'

If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.