Here we find him in 1728 with his cousin Lord Villiers and Lord Buchan, father of the grotesque egotist of that name and of Henry and Thomas Erskine.
If it does not suit the interests of the theater to bring it out now, he surely should be told so, and not kept in a state of suspense, which cannot be delightful to any author, however little of an egotist he may be.
You see, I write as I talk, still about myself; and I am sometimes afraid that my very desire to improve keeps me occupied too much about myself and will make a little moral egotist of me.
Bruce had become such an egotist that, though he would miss Edith's devotion, he wouldn't grudge her the care of the children.
Not that any living being could be less selfish or vain, or less of an egotist than Dulcie.
But I was a great egotist in those days, and reckoned quite above their inherent worth any bright ideas which I could safely call my own.
Old Plavitski had his prejudices of a noble, it is true, and Pan Stanislav counted on them; but, considering the man as an egotist above all, he admitted that in the present case he would sacrifice his daughter and his prejudices.
In one word, it was the chamber of an old single man,--an egotist full of petty anxiety for his personal comfort, and full of pretensions.
For to think that his thought is superior to the purpose of God, thus making himself the real God, is too much for the extremist human egotist within the limits of sanity.
He had reached that ideal of stormy conceit in which, according to Emerson, the egotist declares, "Difference from me is the measure of absurdity.
The qualities of this bold, racy, and brawny egotist can be best conveyed in a biographical form.
None but a healthy and cheerful egotistcould tolerate a life which subsists only for itself.
An ordinary egotist might have drawn some flattering inference from the strange melting of the girl’s reserve and her eagerness to escape him.
Mathieu listened at first in great astonishment, and then began to ask questions and raise objections, at most of which Beauchene laughed gayly, like the gross egotist he was.
But if egotism means selfishness, the serious student of the craft of daily living will not be an egotist for more than about a year.
I seem to hear you saying: 'And a fineegotist he'll be!
He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No.
The Egotist Becomes a Personage "A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again.
Yes--I was perhaps anegotist in youth, but I soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself.
So this raid of an intolerable egotistacross the disordered beginnings of a new time should have closed.
Everywhere too one finds the stupid egotist ready to take fright and break into panic.
There is no proof that this unbrotherly, unhumorous egotist was ever sincerely loved by any human being.
He's what the commonplace American egotist must come to more and more in finance, now that he is abandoning the career of politics, and wants to be rich instead of great.
His arms, his hands were going, his eyes were glistening, his voice had that rich, sympathetic tone which characterizes the egotist when the subject is himself.
The obstinacy of this self-willed egotist was surely growing into a monomania, and perhaps it would have been more dangerous to oppose him than to comply with his whim.
The egotist seemed not to object to having all the talk to himself.
Oh, by what irony of fate was this cold selfish egotist sent to my kingdom, and you taken to the icy mansions of the sky!
His timidity and social insignificance made him harmless; so egotist Fountain had him in to dessert to spin yarns; egotist Bazalgette invited him to her house to flirt with.
The abstract quality evolved from the concrete term egotist by feminine art, without the aid of grammar.
Still, even this profound egotist was not yet so hardened but that he felt one chill of horror at himself for the thought--a passing chill.
The true egotist is the altruist, says Stirner; yet Leibnitz was right; so was Dr.
She replied tartly that she was not willing to revive her past; that her husband had been too much of an egotist to keep friends, and was "very sly.
He is a rotten little egotist and I wouldn't put him above chantage, polite chantage, if you will, but plain extortion at the end.
A man who is an egotist and a bully finds rich pasturage among boys who are bound to listen to him, and over whom he can tyrannise.
A man who was not anegotist and a philosopher, however much he disliked the outcome of the game, would have attempted some phrases of commendation.
All the same it is an intensely interesting book, because it is the attempt of a profound egotist to give a perfectly sincere picture of his life.
Vanity was the tie by which she endeavored to unite the egotist to a great cause, until its own nature could enter into him and raise him above himself.
The true egotistends with a feeling of loathing and disgust, not only towards the world, but himself.
The unfeeling man could not weep: the blessing of tears was denied him; and the vanished spell left the egotist cold and unsatisfied.
He wished to do right; but when he felt the bitterness of such self-denial his strength to carry out the impulse failed, for he was already far too great an egotist to make any sacrifice, and without sacrifice there is no virtue.
The egotist had reached the end of his career, and could neither advance nor recede.
The egotist never knows the satisfaction found in the execution of every great or insignificant law of the universe, for he shuts himself mentally within himself, and draws the juices from the soil which he is rooted without ever enriching it.
But the inveterate egotist was conveniently full of himself, and his pat retort quite free from offence.
On the way home the other egotist waylaid him, with his opinion of old Busby's hallucination and general sanity since the saddler could remember him.
Certainly the sexton was very lean, if not starving to death quite as fast as he declared; for he had become a tiresome egotist on the point, who, even now, must hobble to the schoolmaster with the last report of his unique ailment.
The characteristic of the egotist is to consider himself of too great importance, while the danger of the non-egotist is not sufficiently to realize his significance.
I suppose that theegotist is the man who regards the world as a setting for himself, as opposed to the man who realizes that he is a small unit in a gigantic system.
He was in fact an egotist with strong fancies and preferences; and, though he was an ascetic by preference, he cannot be called a simple-minded man, because the essence of simplicity is not to ride a hobby hard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "egotist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
