She saw that selfishness was the metal which the stamp of heart was suborned to pass; that hypocrisy was the homage that vice rendered to virtue; that honesty was, at all events, acted, because it was the best policy; and so she practised the arts of selfishness and hypocrisy like anybody else in Vanity Fair, only with this difference, that she brought them to their highest possible pitch of perfection.

Generosity is not the virtue of the multitude, and for this reason: selfishness is often the consequence of ignorance, and it requires a cultivated mind to discern where the rights of others interfere with our own wishes.

Buddha taught that good actions bring happiness and bad actions misery; that selfishness is the cause of sin, sorrow and suffering, and that the abolition of self, sacrifices for others and the suppression of passions and desires is the only true plan of salvation.

But look you, Sirs, private selfishness may be public weal, and yet private selfishness be just as surely damned, for all that.

And I am very sure that the selfishness, the lack of real courtesy, which we see so plainly and pitiably in the behavior of the average young man to-day is the slow, certain result of years of just such feelings as this child expressed.

Self-love is the effect of instinct, and is necessary for our preservation in common with other animals; but selfishness is a mental defect and is generated by narrowness of soul.

Hatred, suspicion, selfishness are the dominant notes.

"Selfishness is the most universal of sins and the most hateful.

In a word, masculine selfishness is the keynote of Hindoo life.

Selfishness, fickleness, ignorance, irreverence in the people, with demagoguery in the leader these are the menaces of American democracy.

Selfishness, therefore, was not a mere abuse or corruption arising out of the infirmity of human nature, but a theory and almost a part of moral philosophy.

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives.

Concrete selfishness is her chief mark.

And his granddaughter too, whose disguised selfishness was the light of his household!

Selfishness is not your besetting sin, Miss Patty Fairfield, and I can't allow you to libel yourself.

Selfishness is, of course, their leading characteristic; in fact, the very sum and substance of their natures.

Thus petty, time-serving selfishness is the vice peculiarly characteristic of times of peace and prosperity.

He was one of that class of people who, of a freezing day, will plant themselves directly between you and the fire, and there stand and argue to prove that selfishness is the root of all moral evil.

It will enable you to overcome the world's deceits, and to see that selfishness is not the way to prosper.

The intense selfishness of the first was no more a secret to him than was the entire disinterestedness of the last.

What are they but concentrations of the fact that selfishness is man's ruling passion?

The selfishness of the eighteenth century was a communal selfishness.

7. Selfishness in Art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. 8.