Quote: An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. Author: Diana Black
Quote: Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. Author: Bellamy Brooks
Quote: Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness. Author: Coltvos
Quote: ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. Author: Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929, American Sociologist
Quote: There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. Author: Guy Debord 1931-, French Philosopher
Quote: The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: What will the world be quite overturned when you die? Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Mastery passes often for egotism. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. Author: Lucille S. Harper
Quote: Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. Author: George V. Higgins 1939-, American Novelist
Quote: An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Author: Frank Leahy
Quote: If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. Author: John Lennon 1940-1980, British Rock Musician
Quote: When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut. Author: Dean Martin 1917-1995, French-born American-born American Actor, Singer, Lush
Quote: Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness. Author: Roger M'Ckuen
Quote: Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Author: Wilson Mizner 1876-1933, American Author
Quote: Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. Author: Marianne Moore 1887-1972, American Poet
Quote: One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? Author: H. Ross Perot 1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS
Quote: There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania... Author: Agnes Repplier 1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic
Quote: When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. Author: Alexander Smith 1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author
Quote: If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. Author: Wallace Stevens 1879-1955, American Poet
Quote: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist