T. S. Eliot Quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

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

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

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

Egos turn me off, big time.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

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.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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

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

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.