I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?
A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.
If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.
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.
Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.
Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
