“Apart from the idiotic waste of money, what on earth can this man's motives be, apart from sheer egotism?”

“His monstrous egotism prevents him from penetrating the insincerity of his wife, whose words of affection mask her bloody purpose.”

“The movie brilliantly brings out the A-student egotism of this unrelenting, literal-minded young woman.”

“His arrogance, egoism, and desperate need for adulation, are as well known as his genius.”

“Deliberately to distance oneself from others behind miles of park wall is an act of supreme egoism.”

“The ability for a couple to marry is based on each one controlling innate egoism and narcissism.”

“But both egoist and altruist are philosophical abstractions.”

“For any male Jewish-born atheist, misogynist, egoist out there, this book is just the ticket.”

“He was enough of an egoist, too, to fall captive to his own powers of persuasion.”

“He was at one moment a generous supporter of his fellow artists and at an another an egotist with a patronizing attitude toward those of lesser reputation.”

“Not merely a gargantuan egotist with boundless artistic ambition, he was a prankster on a grand scale.”

“Citizen Kane is the study of one man, both a hero and a rogue, a principled egotist who wanted others to love him, but only on his terms.”

“Like everything else, the individual ego is dependently originated and conditioned.”

“Your arrogance, presumption, and ego come through very clearly in this message.”

“A guy who surfs on his belly did much more than just bruise the ego of one who stands.”

“This adolescent egocentrism and its belief systems account for much of the reckless behavior of some teens.”

“This adolescent egocentrism and its belief systems account for much of the reckless behaviour of some teens.”

“Studies have found adolescent egocentrism to be more prevalent among females than males and to continue into late adolescence.”

“Buddhist teachings emphasize the attainment of egolessness as the ultimate path towards enlightenment.”

“In the Buddhist view, egolessness is pre-existing, beyond our preconceptions.”

“The shaven head denotes purity and egolessness and is said to mitigate past life karma.”

“One can also postulate that much of a child's inability to deal with himself and the world comes from egocentricity.”

“He was an amazing bass player, better than many professional session musicians, and yet he had none of their attitude or egocentricity.”

“Part of the problem is that the egocentricity of childhood means that it sometimes takes years for us to really get to know our mothers as people.”

“They were allied with the people against a tyrannical monarch, an egocentric, who could not see beyond his own selfish ambitions.”

“We need to make ourselves gentle, peaceful, flexible and tame, rather than being undisciplined, rigid, stubborn egocentrics.”

“Well, nothing except hard feelings from impertinent comments made by bewigged egocentrics with fiery tempers.”

“The other are a bunch of stadium-hogging egocentrics whose lead singer has almost bankrupt the band on two separate occasions due to ill-advised property investments.”

“They are not the scruffy eccentrics or crazed egotists that one reads about in fiction and in the Sunday newspapers.”

“Or are we egotists who just want to build what pleases, or enriches, ourselves, without regard to its affinity with our neighbours' buildings?”

“We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.”

“The first one suggests that Pascalian reasoners are manipulative egoists whom God might take exception to, and they won't be rewarded after all.”

“This gets at what ethical egoists intend, while skirting the issue of constraints on moral theories.”

“We do not need to assume anything as strong as the claim that we are all dedicated, grasping, egoists to see this.”

“But shhh, you have to pretend otherwise, or you'll bruise their fragile egos.”

“We're the people who catch errors, clean up copy, answer questions, massage egos, and punctuate sentences.”

“A couple of bruised male egos later I and about 11 other guys made the team.”