Julie Burchill Quotes

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

I was a cocky kid.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

The very essence of the male animal, from the bantam rooster to the four-star general, is to strut.

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I can be a little cocky.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

I have Kanye's ego to some extent.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.