I was not speaking particularly of myself, sir; I am no egotist in such things, and wish to leave my own imperfections to the charity of my friends and neighbours.

If it be egotism to imply and twine with his own identity the griefs and affections of anothermaking himself many, or reducing many unto himselfthen is the skilful novelist, who all along brings in his hero, or heroine, speaking of themselves, the greatest egotist of all; who yet has never, therefore, been accused of that narrowness.

She flushed with shame at the thought of him, ubiquitous among those egotists at Ravinia, enlisting their interest, reminding Paula how much she liked him.

H.G. Wells has called his career the "raid of an intolerable egotist across the disordered beginning of a new time."

He was not a libertine like Henry IV., nor an egotist like Napoleon.

And Jane, level-headed, clear-brained, hard, calm, straight-thinking, cynical, an egotist to her finger-tips, knowing what she wanted and going for it, tough in the conscience, and ignorant of love except in its crudest form of desire for the people and things which ministered to her personal happiness....