Quotes About Ego

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.