“Ultimately, what it amounts to is an aversion to pretentiousness and egomania.”

“A reputation of jealousy, rage and egomania had made him the man he was today, and that was something he had come to regret.”

“It is not so much that Neil's blend of chippiness and egomania has abated, but that it has simply found its perfect outlet.”

“Katzenberg, 53, is the part genius, part egomaniac and part irritating little tick who Disney froze out.”

“He's got long hair, he loves everything purple, and he's a massive egomaniac.”

“Many Americans saw her as a calculating, cold egomaniac who was hell-bent on taking the presidency for herself.”

“I thought both programmes were about egomaniacs, and I fail to see the heroism in a bunch of gold-diggers playing silly games on a sunny island.”

“They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.”

“Is it any wonder that the public's perception of science is that of a bunch of boring egomaniacs jargonizing endlessly about trivialities?”