Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Barbara Stanwyck

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
John Milius

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Ambrose Bierce

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Germaine Greer

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Alexander Smith

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost