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  • I am much too self-aware to be egotistical.†   (source)
  • They are godless through and through, gross egotists, despicable materialists.†   (source)
  • It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies.†   (source)
  • I doubt that I shall ever bring up underneath any precise label, and yet some people would think it egotistical that I insisted upon being a class to myself.†   (source)
  • He despised her spirit of sacrifice, her severity, her vocation for poverty, and her unshakable chastity, which he felt as a reproach toward his own egotistical, sensual, power-hungry nature.†   (source)
  • He listened with secret, egotistical mirth to the husky breathing of the two doctors.†   (source)
  • How could I be thinking of another guy—an annoying, egotistical, womanizing guy—when such a wonderful one stood right in front of me?†   (source)
  • The popular, egotistical general who considered the members of Congress no better than cattle and longed for the "necessary power" to set everything straight was no longer a factor.†   (source)
  • Behind the reception counter was Dewey Beemis, the combination receptionist and security guard, who had worked at the Post for over twenty years, since an insanely egotistical billionaire had founded it with the naive and hopeless intention of toppling the politically connected Times from its perch of power and prestige.†   (source)
  • You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write a poem, to just sit down and say a prayer till her nasty, egotistical urge goes away?†   (source)
  • From my egotistical position, there was no way Homer could cook anything that tasted good in this caveman kitchen.†   (source)
  • I get kicked upstairs to Oranienburg and I have to endure the intolerable embarrassment of seeing them put Liebehenschel in my place—Liebehenschel, that insufferable egotist with his bloated reputation for efficiency.†   (source)
  • She searched her mind for some proper egotistical humility and almost happily arrived at the sacrifice--herself.†   (source)
  • In my dealings with criminals in the past one thing had become obvious, that all were incurable optimists, as well as egotists.†   (source)
  • Ah, happiness is such an egotistical thing!†   (source)
  • Senator Benton, declared the Missouri Register, is "a demagogue and a tyrant at heart …. the greatest egotist in Christendom…… Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he shows but one characteristic—that of a blustering, insolent, unscrupulous demagogue."†   (source)
  • It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.   (source)
  • It was egotistical, but I've done what was best for my own peace of mind.   (source)
    egotistical = self-centered
  • She's known to be exceedingly pushy, egotistical, cunning, calculating and perpetually dissatisfied.   (source)
    egotistical = conceited and self-centered
  • Totally egotistical and indifferent, Rosalie twisted in her chair so that her back was to him.†   (source)
  • Egotist.†   (source)
  • To the Yankee matron from Braintree, the sloppy, ill-mannered, egotistical old woman seemed the very personification of the decadence and decay inherent in European society.†   (source)
  • And if the conference was peaceful, it was simply a matter of following the assassin — by then inevitably buoyed by the success of his tactics as well as by whatever the client delivered — and taking an unsuspecting supreme egotist in Tian an men Square.†   (source)
  • Just because I'm choosy about what I want—in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame or any of those things—doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else.†   (source)
  • The change made him somewhat egotistical, as also the fact that there was a woman in love with him.†   (source)
  • 'But soon, too soon,' said Bernard, 'this egotistic exultation fails.†   (source)
  • By nature he was imperious as well as egotistical.†   (source)
  • Have you considered anything but your own egotistical satisfaction?†   (source)
  • All in a rush I said to him, "Why, you lousy egotist!"†   (source)
  • It was the most egotistical speech I've ever heard in my life.†   (source)
  • You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know.†   (source)
  • A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation.†   (source)
  • That was an evening to swell an egotist's heart.†   (source)
  • The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others.†   (source)
  • We are dealing, gentlemen of the jury, with the most vicious explosive on earth—the egotist!†   (source)
  • …a ruthless, arrogant egotist who wished to have his own way at any price…†   (source)
  • And I may say, mademoiselle, that but for the egotistical vanity of a killer, that is just what would have happened.†   (source)
  • The bald egotistical swine.†   (source)
  • You look like an insufferable egotist.†   (source)
  • He is petty, selfish, vain, egotistical; he is spoilt; he is a tyrant; he wears Mrs. Ramsay to death; but he has what you (she addressed Mr. Bankes) have not; a fiery unworldliness; he knows nothing about trifles; he loves dogs and his children.†   (source)
  • He is intolerably egotistical.†   (source)
  • Muck all the insane, egotistical, treacherous swine that have always governed Spain and ruled her armies.†   (source)
  • So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.†   (source)
  • Don't you see how egotistical it is?†   (source)
  • No. I'm too egotistical for that.†   (source)
  • Egotistical?†   (source)
  • If your first concern is for what you are or think or feel or have or haven't got—you're still a common egotist.†   (source)
  • But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge, or act.†   (source)
  • Rulers of men are not egotists.†   (source)
  • An egotist would have loved it.†   (source)
  • But egotists are not kind.†   (source)
  • I'm an utter egotist.†   (source)
  • Those are the egotists.†   (source)
  • The Norwegian and Swedish lads were much more self-centred, apt to be egotistical and jealous.†   (source)
  • BOOK ONE—The Romantic Egotist CHAPTER 1.†   (source)
  • If she was egotistic about her tiny learning, they were at least as much so regarding theirs.†   (source)
  • But you will forgive me if I seem too egotistical.†   (source)
  • The mild, blue-eyed young Ohio boy was a complete egotist, as all children are egotists.†   (source)
  • He's never going to see how egotistical it is to think he's the only man living who's always right!"†   (source)
  • They are such wretchedly small, vain, egotistical, COMMONPLACE people!†   (source)
  • Genial egotist that he was, he went at once into a detailed account of his own career.†   (source)
  • Fear not, you must be egotist, for it is of you that we think.†   (source)
  • SNAPSHOTS OF THE YOUNG EGOTIST Amory spent nearly two years in Minneapolis.†   (source)
  • Oh, the inconceivable egotistic imagination of women!†   (source)
  • The mild, blue-eyed young Ohio boy was a complete egotist, as all children are egotists.†   (source)
  • There never were men placed in such egotistic positions since—oh, since the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Hell, Terry, and you, Mart, don't be so egotistic!†   (source)
  • Now, as I am not egotistical, we will return to our comrades and draw lots for her.†   (source)
  • As I told you before, say nothing egotistical.†   (source)
  • There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists!†   (source)
  • The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts.†   (source)
  • Decidedly man is an ungrateful and egotistical animal.†   (source)
  • But Totski himself, though an egotist of the extremest type, realized that he had no chance there; Aglaya was clearly not for such as he.†   (source)
  • Three of them scrambled egotistically for the honor of pulling her into the boat, managing, among them, to bruise her knee and hip against the side.†   (source)
  • Oh, by what irony of fate was this cold selfish egotist sent to my kingdom, and you taken to the icy mansions of the sky!†   (source)
  • Conscience makes egotists of us all.†   (source)
  • If Martin really desired his help (Gottlieb could be as modest personally as he was egotistic and swaggering in competitive science), he would make the boy's career his own.†   (source)
  • Drouet had ability in this fine himself when the game was worth the candle, but he was too much the egotist to reach the polish which Hurstwood possessed.†   (source)
  • During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.†   (source)
  • He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.†   (source)
  • M. Vinteuil would have liked nothing better, but he carried politeness and consideration for others to so fine a point, always putting himself in their place, that he was afraid of boring them, or of appearing egotistical, if he carried out, or even allowed them to suspect what were his own desires.†   (source)
  • He will risk the stake and the cross; starve, when necessary, in a garret all his life; study women and live on their work and care as Darwin studied worms and lived upon sheep; work his nerves into rags without payment, a sublime altruist in his disregard of himself, an atrocious egotist in his disregard of others.†   (source)
  • In a word, he lied as much as did Odette, because, while more unhappy than she, he was no less egotistical.†   (source)
  • Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.†   (source)
  • Yes—I was perhaps an egotist in youth, but I soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself.†   (source)
  • After Amory returned to college he received several letters from Monsignor which gave him more egotistic food for consumption.†   (source)
  • Amory talked; he went thoroughly into the destruction of his egotistic highways, and in a half-hour the listless quality had left his voice.†   (source)
  • The Egotist Becomes a Personage "A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again….†   (source)
  • The Egotist Considers "Ouch!†   (source)
  • He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No.†   (source)
  • THE EGOTIST DOWN Amory's two years at St. Regis', though in turn painful and triumphant, had as little real significance in his own life as the American "prep" school, crushed as it is under the heel of the universities, has to American life in general.†   (source)
  • CODE OF THE YOUNG EGOTIST Before he was summoned back to Lake Geneva, he had appeared, shy but inwardly glowing, in his first long trousers, set off by a purple accordion tie and a "Belmont" collar with the edges unassailably meeting, purple socks, and handkerchief with a purple border peeping from his breast pocket.†   (source)
  • He was a learned egotist.†   (source)
  • But Maggie's face, made more childlike by the gathering tears, touched him with a tenderer, less egotistic feeling.†   (source)
  • Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.†   (source)
  • If every confectioner went buzzing about the world banging against everything that came in his way and egotistically calling upon everybody to take notice that he was going to his work and must not be interrupted, the world would be quite an unsupportable place.†   (source)
  • My thoughts were more egotistical, and I was thinking how much you reminded me of my dear father, by your experience, wisdom, and suitableness to take his place as the head of a family.†   (source)
  • If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.†   (source)
  • Homais dilated in Amphytrionic pride, and the affecting thought of Bovary vaguely contributed to his pleasure by a kind of egotistic reflex upon himself.†   (source)
  • The Devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without a why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist.†   (source)
  • I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.†   (source)
  • And to all these questions poor Kitty, forced to put on a pleasant face, responded in a stifled voice whose dolorous accent her mistress did not however remark, solely because happiness is egotistical.†   (source)
  • He was in one of those moments of egotistical, exclusive, supreme, enjoyment when the artist beholds nothing in the world but art, and the world in art.†   (source)
  • She spoke of her prospects, her occupations, her father's intentions; she was not egotistical, but felt the propriety of supplying the information so distinguished a guest would naturally expect.†   (source)
  • It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.†   (source)
  • Though she referred frequently to the incidents of her own career she never lingered upon them; she was as little of a gross egotist as she was of a flat gossip.†   (source)
  • The poet admires the man of energy and tactics; the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar; and where a man is not vain and egotistic you shall find what he has not by his praise.†   (source)
  • Circumstances have made it seem rather egotistic in me to urge the subject; but that is not my fault: it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men.†   (source)
  • Cosette and Marius were passing through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness.†   (source)
  • "What I have certainly gained is freedom," he began seriously, but did not continue, noticing that this theme was too egotistic.†   (source)
  • It hates corners and sharp points of character, hates quarrelsome, egotistical, solitary, and gloomy people; hates whatever can interfere with total blending of parties; whilst it values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.†   (source)
  • That had been well enough for the earlier time, though about this, as about his other affairs, Ralph had never been egotistic.†   (source)
  • "There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here,—three peaks as proud as Lucifer.†   (source)
  • Franz was not sufficiently egotistical to stop Albert in the middle of an adventure that promised to prove so agreeable to his curiosity and so flattering to his vanity.†   (source)
  • After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander.†   (source)
  • The elder prisoner was one of those persons whose conversation, like that of all who have experienced many trials, contained many useful and important hints as well as sound information; but it was never egotistical, for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.†   (source)
  • "When I hear misfortunes named, madame," he said, "I have within the last few months contracted the bad habit of thinking of my own, and then I cannot help drawing up an egotistical parallel in my mind.†   (source)
  • A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out "Courage!" held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailer, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them to-morrow.†   (source)
  • "My dear count," cried Morcerf, "you are at fault—you, one of the most formidable logicians I know—and you must see it clearly proved that instead of being an egotist, you are a philanthropist.†   (source)
  • I do not dare offer to share my apartments with you, as I shared yours at Rome—I, who do not profess egotism, but am yet egotist par excellence; for, except myself, these rooms would not hold a shadow more, unless that shadow were feminine.†   (source)
  • Sure he's egotistic, so what?†   (source)
  • The American is no longer a [Pg076] "vain, egotistical, insolent, rodomontade sort of fellow"; America is no longer the "brigand confederation" of the /Foreign Quarterly/ or "the loathsome creature, …. maimed and lame, full of sores and ulcers" of Dickens; but the Americanism is yet regarded with a bilious eye, and pounced upon viciously when found.†   (source)
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