Self Aggrandisement Quotes

#1. A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.

Hilary Mantel

#2. I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Alexander Payne

#3. I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd

#4. You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. We need statutory spending limits written into law.

Pat Toomey

#6. Yet again that the quietest man in the room is usually the most dangerous.

Terry Hayes

#7. A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.

Nick Lane

#8. In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

Theodor Adorno

#9. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

Dave Mearns