Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

We are all, even the best of us, egotists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds.

Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.

We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Egotism plays many parts, even that of altruism.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Comfort makes cowards of us all.

Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?

The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever-increasing attention in themselves.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.