Grandiosity Quotes

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Do you know, I have often thought that I am the cleverest woman who ever lived and that others cannot compare with me. Although I have heard much about Queen Victoria ... still I don't think her life is half as interesting and eventful as mine. Now look at me, I have 400 million people all dependent on my judgment.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

The bigger the better; in everything.

Americans are instinctively grandiose.