“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
“She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
One thing leads to another. Self importance leads to self neglect. To think you're better than anyone else is the birth of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Life has taught me that if I want to rise, I have to get over myself. So EGO could be perceived as… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
