I Am Selfish Quotes

• I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Selfish, Artist, Umpires

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

  Holly Near

  Children, Selfish, Believe

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• I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

  Neil Gaiman

  Selfish, Bored, Problem

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.12, Del Rey

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• I am selfish. I am brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Selfish, Brave

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1)”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

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• Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  Madame Roland

  Selfish, Love Is, Gallant

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sympathy, Selfish, Hunting

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• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Selfish, Liars, Lying

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Selfish, Laughing

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• You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Love, Hate, Selfish

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  Douglas Horton

  Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

  Andrew Jackson

  Powerful, Selfish, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Insult

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• I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Selfish, Mates

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.162, Macmillan

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• I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.

  Gena Showalter

  Selfish, Years, Two

  Gena Showalter (2010). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.254, HQN Books

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• Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

  Andy Irons

  Selfish, Happy Life, Winning

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clever, Selfish, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  Kajol

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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