“Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”
Barbara Stanwyck
“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.”
“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
“Mastery passes often for egotism.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
