Egotism Quote by Martin Amis

Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity,…

— Martin Amis

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

— Natalia Makarova

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the…

— Pierre Daninos

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

— Robert Graves

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”

— Ben Macintyre

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.

— Julie Delpy