(83 quotes found)
“I always thought I should be treated like a star.”
Madonna
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.”
Graham Greene
“Egotism is an alphabet of one letter”
Scottish Proverb
“Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
Germaine Greer
“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Deny Self for Self's sake”
Benjamin Franklin
“Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
