quotes about Egotism
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
The unfortunate are always egotistical.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
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Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
-- Edmund Clarence Stedman -
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
-- Evan Esar -
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
-- Evan Esar -
Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.
-- Evan Esar -
The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-- Frank Leahy -
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When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.
-- Gene Chandler -
Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
-- George V. Higgins -
With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
-- Glen DuncanSource : Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.
-- Guru Gobind Singh -
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In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
-- Guru Gobind Singh -
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
-- Guru Nanak -
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.Source : Song: A Country Boy Can Survive
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So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
-- Hector Bianciotti -
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Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
-- Hugh KingsmillSource : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”
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Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
-- Jean Toomer -
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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I do things my way and I pay a high price.
-- John MellencampSource : Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow
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What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?
-- Kazuya Minekura -
There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.
-- Lou RawlsSource : Song: You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
-- Mother Teresa -
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Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.
-- NellySource : Song: Splurge, Album: Nellyville
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Welcome to the church of me.
-- Paula ColeSource : Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996
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I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
-- Randy Newman -
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The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.
-- Snoop Dogg -
It is never permissible to say, I say.
-- Suzanne CurchodSource : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 80), 1896.
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If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
-- Tennessee Ernie Ford -
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
-- William James -
Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.
-- William Strunk, Jr.Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”
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I didn't mean to turn you on.
-- CherrelleSource : Song: I Didn't Mean to Turn You On, Album: Fragile