Censure Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

— Mason Cooley

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

— Josh Billings

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement,…

— Abraham Cowley

An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

— Joseph Fort Newton

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we…

— Teju Cole

EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

— Nikhil Saluja

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

— Ambrose Bierce

“It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be "egotistic" is not suffering from too much ego, but from too…

— Sydney J. Harris

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

— Ambrose Bierce