Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.

If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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

It's good to have a healthy ego because that pushes you to succeed. But when you cross a line, and your views are not balanced, that's when you get into trouble.

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

Clearly I've got an ego.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.