(83 quotes found)
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“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
“Mastery passes often for egotism.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty”
Mark Twain
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
Helen Rowland
“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”
Frank Leahy
