Egotism Quotes - Page 11

• In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

  Elvis Costello

  Mind, Pieces, Tiny

  Song: Crimes Of Paris, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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• On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

  George Thorogood

  Nurse, Joy, Wonder

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• Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

  Jim Croce

  Genius, Matter, Facts

  Song: Workin' At The Carwash Blues

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• We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Boys, Whiskey, Smoke

  Song: A Country Boy Can Survive

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• Welcome to the church of me.

  Paula Cole

  Church, Welcome

  Song: Road To Dead, Album: This Fire, 1996

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• 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

  Kings, Thinking, Nuts

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• When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.

  Gene Chandler

  Duchess

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• You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Thinking, Feelings, Tonight

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• You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

  Michael Jackson

  Knows

  Song: BAD

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• You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jealous, Causes, Knows

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• The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Travel, Catholic, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Home, Humanity, Horizon

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• I know perfectly well my own egotism.

  Walt Whitman

  Wells, My Own, Knows

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.67, NYU Press

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• Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Opinion, Mark

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Causes, Action, Obsessed

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Dec 11, 2015

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Demand, Companion, Vocation

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• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  James Anthony Froude

  Writing, Adventure, Mean

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the other one better than ourselves. Laden with my own egotism. Laden with all my sins. And when I went to bed last night and thought about everything and wanted to bring all those difficulties to God, I couldn't even find the words!

  Diet Eman

  Pride, Night, Thinking

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• Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, Giving, Doe

  "Classics Revisited". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Casanova: History of My Life", p. 153, 1968.

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• Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Knowledge, Thinking

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• We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Talking, Years, Interviews

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• Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Religious, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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• IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND.
  THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

  Dogen

  Exercise, Greed, Would Be

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• Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

  William Hazlitt

  Children, Character, Envy

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