| 1. | Decidedly man is an ungrateful and egotistical animal. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | "There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things look here,--three peaks as proud as Lucifer. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 5. | Franz was not sufficiently egotistical to stop Albert in the middle of an adventure that promised to prove so agreeable to his curiosity and so flattering to his vanity. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | "When I hear misfortunes named, madame," he said, "I have within the last few months contracted the bad habit of thinking of my own, and then I cannot help drawing up an egotistical parallel in my mind. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | Byron pretended to know the secret, unwholesome side of Europe, which generally hides itself in the dark but instead of giving us a variety of living men, he never gets away from his own unbalanced and egotistical self. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | Moreover, what is an obscure corner in such a submersion of joy Cosette and Marius were passing through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |