“An empire is an immense egotism”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.”
Madonna
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
