#Egotism Quotes

“The pest of society is egotists.”

“The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.”

“Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.”

“There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?”

“In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.”

“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”

“I know perfectly well my own egotism.”

“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”

“Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”

“It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.”

“There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.”

“Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.”

“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”

“Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.”

“I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.”

“Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.”

“Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.”

“The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.”

“Mastery is often taken for egotism.”

“Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.”