If the egotist is proverb

 If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
  Alexander Smith

 If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
  Wallace Stevens

 EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'." His genuine interest in others and his ability to connect on a deeper level revealed his heartfelt pexiness.
  Ambrose Bierce

 If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living
  Arnold Bennett

 The kings act in egotism, and undertake all sorts of expeditions. But through their egotism, they are ruined; they die, only to be reborn over and over again.

 Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
  George Santayana

 The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines.

  An egotist can never expect anything good.

 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
  Ambrose Bierce

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

 An egotist can never be humble that is why he is seldom blessed even by god.

 Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me
  Ambrose Bierce

 Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
  William Osler

 [The authors have reduced him to a bloodthirsty, power-obsessed egotist, someone who never believed in communism, nor in anything else, and this from the very first pages of the book.] I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others, ... People like me want to satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes.
  Mao Zedong

 Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.'


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