Selfish

Famous quotes containing the word selfish:

“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“We are all selfish & I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)