An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own life. From LearnThat.org. [Dan Bennett]
In his secret heart the egotist is a self-despiser. From Wordnik.com. [The Glory of the Trenches] Reference
He has been described as an "egotist," but I challenge the description. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
His kind of egotist wouldn't, not on such a topic. ". From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
He would be odious -- a smirking, conceited egotist!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
It seems to me I am growing to be a dreadful egotist. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
He is that rarest of birds, a wholly delightful egotist. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
Thomas Paine and even of that notorious and notable egotist. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
On our knees the egotist must die, and the altruist be born. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
"You will think me an egregious egotist, Miss Holland, I fear.". From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
"But what a horrible egotist you must think me!" she exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
Well ... that and I'm an egotist according to some other diarists. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
The "poor nameless egotist" of the Confessions is not Charles Lamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Could an egotist win and keep such affection and gratitude as that?. From Wordnik.com. [Stage Confidences] Reference
Whitman's calm and poise was not that of the ice-encrusted egotist. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
There was not one speck of envy in the whole human-hearted egotist. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Holbrook was a wise and good man, or simply a mischief-making egotist. From Wordnik.com. [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference
If you see a bicycle you know an antisocial egotist is not far behind. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results] Reference
The man who has never felt or shown weakness is a contemptible egotist. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
But the octogenarian egotist has something to tell about beside herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
Just as the egotist in our midst is diminished by his or her self-regard. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Burns Wants You To Park It] Reference
Hence oblivion, often unjust, is the punishment which the egotist suffers. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Risler, with all his good-nature, was an egotist pure and simple, a parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This may make my tape sound like a pompous egotist, and if so, it just has to be. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And he would have been right if St. Alban had been the great egotist that he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Will she not have passed by very far, in the spirit-world, this unconscious egotist?. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I was a misanthrope, and the unhappiest sort of egotist -- the kind that dislikes himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
He has divorced three wives (the last one called him "a coward, an opportunist and an egotist"). From Wordnik.com. [Germany's Giant Killer] Reference
The bombastic egotist floats on the crest of prosperity while the philosopher starves in his tub. From Wordnik.com. [Wise or Otherwise] Reference
Napoleon laid Europe waste and desolated more distant lands, but he was an enormous egotist and morally. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
I am not egotist enough to suppose all this significance should be given because I was the object of it. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He was no egotist who believed that because he had been a successful soldier and was now President of the. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington: Farmer] Reference
Maxwell was no egotist, and was always prone to see only an impersonal significance in parish compliments. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
But I acknowledge that an egotist doesn't make an agreeable picture, however charmingly you apologize for her. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
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