Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen

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

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Israel Zangwill

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
John L. Lewis

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
David O. McKay

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
James K. Polk

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Jessica Lange

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka