William Hazlitt Quotes

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

I imagine there's a level of narcissism that goes into thinking you're enough.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

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

We all get self-centered.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.