(11 quotes found)
“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
Earl Wilson
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”
J. Donald Walters
“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”
George III
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”
Kelly Miller
“Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them.. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Came you from Court? for in your Mien, A self-important air is seen.”
Benjamin Franklin