Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.
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.
I'm the greatest in this world.
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.
I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
I am an expert witness because I say I am.
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.
She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.
If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism. . . tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.