Self-importance Quotes - Page 5

• Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Stars, Self, Black

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• (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Self, Stories, Form

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• Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Self, Giving, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pride, Self, Development

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• Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.

  John de Ruiter

  Self, Patterns, Littles

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• before feminism was, Paglia was!

  Camille Paglia

  Feminism

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.

  Elinor Glyn

  Loss, Self, California

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• self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

  Catherine the Great

  Self, Injustice, Interest

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• How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

  Teresa of Avila

  Honor, Friendly, Should

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Class, Lasts, Election

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Drama, Attention, Massive

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• What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Concern

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.67, A&C Black

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• It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Thinking, People, Interest

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

  Harriet Martineau

  Eye, People, Dolls

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.181, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Self, Twenties

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Self, Names, People

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Fall, Pride

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.555, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

  Lydia M. Child

  Blow, Reality, Trumpets

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• conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

  Margaret Deland

  Horse, Devil, Conceit

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• Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men

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• The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Sympathy, Self, People

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• I consider myself more exportant than important.

  Vanna Bonta

  Important, Fame

  "Shades of the World". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1985.

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