Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

The egotism of woman is always for two.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

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

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

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.

Isolation breeds conceit.

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.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

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

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

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

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

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.