Egotism Quotes
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Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.
William Strunk, Jr. -
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it
William V. Shannon -
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Victor Hugo -
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle -
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
Victor Hugo -
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Arthur Helps -
When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
Steve Martin -
I know perfectly well my own egotism.
Walt Whitman -
There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
Edwin Percy Whipple