349 Ego Quotes

The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail blazing, eye brow raising, the best in the present, future and past, and if ya'll don't like me you can kiss the people's ass!

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I'm not hard to get along with.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational. Even when their 'Logic' defied the evidence

He may be white, but he's still a man. Men always think they know the right thing, and so they don't listen

Do you talk to your mistress like this? Like what? With utter honesty? Yes Impudently? Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid

Admit it, Aaron. We're two of a kind. We both think we're leader of a mighty nation

This 'I' of mine toils hard, day and night, for a home which it knows as its own. Alas, there will be no end of its sufferings so long as it is not able to call this home thine. Till then it will struggle on, and its heart will ever cry, 'Ferryman, lead me across.' When this home of mine is made thine, that very moment is it taken across, even while its old walls enclose it. This 'I' is restless. It is working for a gain which can never be assimilated with its spirit, which it never can hold and retain. In its efforts to clasp in its own arms that which is for all, it hurts others and is hurt in its turn, and cries, 'Lead me across'. But as soon as it is able to say, 'All my work is thine,' everything remains the same, only it is taken across. Where can I meet thee unless in this mine home made thine? Where can I join thee unless in this my work transformed into thy work? If I leave my home I shall not reach thy home; if I cease my work I can never join thee in thy work. For thou dwellest in me and I in thee. Thou without me or I without thee are nothing.

I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self addiction

Everybody has an ego.

I cried, I don't know why:.I don't like his music or anything:.you know it's awful about his baby I just::I don't want to talk about that:..I just don't think he has very many guts::I just don't see why he wouldn't want to see his daughter grow up:you know:that he wouldn't be excited enough about that to not think of himself::people just start thinking of themselves too much. I don't think it's so much that they become conscious of the world of video and the world of this and that and a world of fame, they just think of themselves and no matter who you are and whether you're a rock star or a garbage man, if you're thinking of yourself all the time you're not gonna be very good at what you do. With a baby you can tell them funny jokes when they're two and they'll love it, you can teach them about how everyone's an idiot and they'll love it:..but you know:..it doesn't occur to a lot of people how intense that is:..how beautiful it is.

Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

Gosto dos epitafios; eles sao, entre a gente civilizada, uma expressao daquele pio e secreto egoismo que induz o homem a arrancar a morte um farrapo ao menos da sombra que passou.

BLESSED BE ALL THOSE WHO HEAR AND RUSH TO FREE YOU, LORD, AND WHO SAY: 'ONLY YOU AND I EXIST.' BLESSED BE ALL THOSE WHO FREE YOU AND BECOME UNITED WITH YOU, LORD, AND WHO SAY: 'YOU AND I ARE ONE.' AND THRICE BLESSED BE THOSE WHO BEAR ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND DO NOT BUCKLE UNDER THIS GREAT, SUBLIME, AND TERRIFYING SECRET: THAT EVEN THIS ONE DOES NOT EXIST!

When I first went to Occidental College... there was a literary magazine...called the Aurora, and I remember thinking it odd that Occidental - the west, the setting sun - should be represented by a magazine called Aurora, the dawn. At least it gave us a wide range, the whole daylight sky. I was continually writing verses in those days. Nobody, not even I myself, thought they were good verses; but Aurora's editor accepted many of them and it gave me pleasure to see my rhymes in print. They did rhyme, if that is any value, and were usually metrical, but why was I so eager to publish what hardly anyone would read and no one would remember? I suppose the desire for publication is a normal part of the instinct for writing... the writer sits at home, and the mere fact of being printed provides his verses with a kind of audience... So, having his vanity partially satisfied, he can go ahead and try better work.

In the past even I was afraid of my own greatness, therefore I could not stand in front of mirrors.

My brain and ass should be in the Smithsonian after I die, or even before I die.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale it.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.

'My idea of an agreeable person,' said Hugo Bohun, 'is a person who agrees with me.'

Charles Greville was the most conceited person with whom I have ever been brought in contact, though I have read Cicero and known Bulwer-Lytton.

'My good Horse,' said the Hermit... 'My good Horse, you've lost nothing but your self-conceit. No, no, cousin. Don't put back your ears and shake your mane at me. If you are really so humbled as you sounded a minute ago, you must learn to listen to sense. You're not quite the great Horse you had come to think, from living among poor dumb horses. Of course you were braver and cleverer than them. You could hardly help being that. It doesn't follow that you'll be anyone very special in Narnia. But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another....' (ch. 10)

The devil...the prowde spirit...cannot endure to be mocked.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

I would say that there are certain glittering generalities that can be made about every sign that will hold true about everybody who's a member of that sign. For instance, if you had been a Virgo, you would have understood how I hate to be late. I broke up a group I was in once called The Big Three because one of the guys was chronically late and I couldn't take it. I feel when you're supposed to be some place on time, you're there on time. You don't hang people up. It doesn't matter if you're the President of the United States. That's not what you are here for, to hang people up. When I know somebody's sign, and I usually know everybody's sign whether they tell me or not - after getting into this for several years - it helps me to deal with them. Usually I'd rather let people deal with me. That's a total ego hang up, but that's where it's at.

None but a fool is always right.

'Our society is besotted by the cult of the ego: books, television programmes, films, literature, magazines, are awash with stories and dramas about personal relationships: who-loves-whom, who-is-bonking-whom; who-wants-to-bonk-someone-else; who-is-cheating-on-someone; who-is-angry-with-someone-for-something; who-has-more-money and so can afford luxuries and self-indulgence; and so on ad nauseum. Not only no honour and very little loyalty, but certainly no notion of either duty or Destiny'

Chances are you feel superior to almost everyone you work with - however, they probably feel the same way about you.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.

Les vieillards aiment a donner de bons preceptes, pour se consoler de n'etre plus en etat de donner de mauvais exemples.

Chacun dit du bien de son coeur et personne n'en ose dire de son esprit.

Le vrai moyen d'etre trompe, c'est de se croire plus fin que les autres.

On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.

Le refus des louanges est un desir d'etre loue deux fois.

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.

Ce qui fait que les amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble, c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux-memes.

Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que d'amour.

Nous ne trouvons guere de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.

Il n'y a point de gens qui aient plus souvent tort que ceux qui ne peuvent souffrir d'en avoir.

Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.

Il n'est jamais plus difficile de bien parler que quand on a honte de se taire.

Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Jack: I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

I can't die. It would wreck my image.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.