Quotes About Ego

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

God sinks into dust before man.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.