Before the allotted time had elapsedshall I confess it?my fears for the Hermit were overcome by those that were purely selfish.

Thousands of women are simply starving for Love and men are either willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish.

Feeling that she was bought with a price, she realized that she was not her own, but the captive of Divine Love, and that her talents were not given her to hide beneath a bushel or to use for merely selfish enjoyments.

This honest mechanic falls in love with a pretty but vain, empty, silly, selfish girl of his own class; but she had already fallen under the spell of the young squire of the village,a good-natured fellow, of generous impulses, but essentially selfish and thoughtless, and utterly unable to cope with his duty.

For I have been abominably selfish.

It was horribly selfish of her, Tony knew; but it didn't seem as if she could bear to have Dick go.

I was being awfully selfish when I refused to do anything to help that little bug.

But the boys were born selfish, tiresomely, disgustingly selfish.

Yet, in spite of this true sympathy with suffering and his desire to help, he was narrow as a telegraph wire and unbending as a church pillar; he was intensely selfish; intolerant as an officer of the Inquisition, his bourgeois soul constructed a revolting scheme of heaven that was reproduced in miniature in all he did and planned.

In his blind conceit, he is utterly unconscious that he is exhibiting clearly his own coldly selfish nature and his wife's sweet, sunny disposition.

No truly civilised Government could be so brutally selfish as to protect itself by inflicting the horrors of fearful war upon a helpless and unoffending people.

It is frightfully selfish of you.'

Napoleon is not painted as a monster, but as a supremely selfish man bent entirely on his own exaltation, making the welfare of France subservient to his own glory, and the interests of humanity itself secondary to his pride and fame.

And I give you my word that until to-day I had not suspected how blindly selfish I have been!

I am profoundly, incomprehensibly selfish.

Jane was always dreadfully selfish, you know....' '

Thus while in one sense the ideal of such a society was an eminently selfish one, it is none the less true that there have been very few societies indeed in which the ordinary forms of personal selfishness have played so small a part.

Generous, innocent, artistic, affectionate, eloquent, impulsive, a good deal spoilt, unconsciously insincere, and no doubt fundamentally selfish, he hates the thought of dying and he hates losing his wife almost as much.

The man had no conscience, and he was almost incomparably selfish, but he was capable of loving, and he did love.

I am profoundly, incomprehensibly selfish.

But he is inherently selfish, and has no moral courage.

Inordinately selfish, surrounded by ready flatterers, eager of gain, he was a complete tyrant in his domains.

Youth is and must be wholly, madly selfish; it is not until we have learnt the folly of our aims that we may forget them, that we may pity the sufferings of others, that we may rejoice in the triumphs of our friends.

Yet as a faithful presentation of human selfishness, and of you and me in so far as we happen to be mainly selfish, the odious mirror has its uses by showing us what manner of man we are or may become.

she cried, casting her hands out from her in bitter complaint, "there is nothing so meanly selfish as a man!