Quotes About Ego

Once the race for the victim position is under way, each person must find some way to out-victim the other.

Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.

Ego Check. Damn it. How many would he need in one day?

What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man." If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.

People lie because they wish to impress those around them. I seek to impress no one. You would be wise to remember that.

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

I think he and the Princess are engaged in an unofficial game of Who Can Show They're More Important by Arriving Last, not that either of them would admit it.

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.

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

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.

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

He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

Have you ever noticed, Oscar, that when people say, 'You're a smart woman', what they really mean to say is 'But I am smarter'?

Your ego would survive an apocalypse." "Thank you." "It wasn't a compliment." "It was to me.

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

Some people simply live to prove to others that they have more.

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.