egotism quotes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^9  The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotismöshe disliked them all.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
  Homecomings, ch.22.This phrase was later used as the title of his1964 novel, Corridors of Power.

2 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 2

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.