Egotism Quotes

Most popular egotism quotes

There are none so empty as those who are so full of themselves.
An egotist is a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
An egotist is a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin quote.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
Every man is of importance to himself. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Every man is of importance to himself.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. - Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

hypocrisy

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

witty narcissist

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

faith

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

funny

His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. - William Hazlitt quote.
His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself.
Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. - Henry Miller quote.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

spiritual the self

The egotist always hurts the one he loves—himself.
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

funny right and wrong

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton quote.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill quote.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
Perhaps, one should not think so much of oneself, though it is an interesting subject. - George Norman Douglas quote.
Perhaps, one should not think so much of oneself, though it is an interesting subject.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

ego stupidity

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons? - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov quote.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Don't be humble... you're not that great. - Golda Meir quote.
Don't be humble... you're not that great.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself. - Mae West quote.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. - J. K. Jerome quote.
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
The meek shall inherit the earth.
— Psalm 37:11

biblical mankind society

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble. - Muhammad Ali quote.
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. - Ted Turner quote.
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. - Anthony Powell quote.
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
If there's such a thing as genius — which is just what? What the fuck is it — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care. - John Lennon quote.
If there's such a thing as genius — which is just what? What the fuck is it — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening. - Marlon Brando quote.
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. - Anatole France quote.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

writers

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth." - Benito Mussolini quote.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth."
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt quote.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. - Salvador Dalí quote.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Conceit wouldn't be so terrible if only the right people had it.
— African proverb

African proverbs proverbs

THE VITAL PERCEPT

One vital precept isn't taught
sufficiently imperiously:
that other people didn't ought
to take themselves too seriously.
A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package. - Harry Emerson Fosdick quote.
A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

self-centered

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.