Quotes of Egoist - somelinesforyou

“ In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ”

- Christopher Lasch

“ No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that…I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. ”

- Curt Rosten

“ It's much better when I go out with my mates and we stop talking about me like I'm some sort of egomaniac. It's great when we can just have a drink. ”

- Dido

“ Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

- John Lennon

“ Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas — including this one. ”

- Dan Rather

“ An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. ”

- John Petit Senn

“ If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

- John Lennon

“ Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. ”

- John Lennon

“ Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. ”

- Lucille S. Harper

“ I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. ”

- Glenn Quinn

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists. ”

- Nicolas Chamfort
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