Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
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Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
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Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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