"Self-important" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is too much like our own for that; something provincial lingering about it, although they have an emperor of their own. We cannot do without the other hemisphere yet, in spite of our self-important airs. We Yankees have coaxed Time out of a great deal, but he is not to be cheated for all that. People were not busy for thousands of years in the Old World, merely to qualify them for discovering America, whatever some of our patriots may ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... for Azalea's attitude, which was that of self-important bravado. Quite conscious of her shortcomings, the girl's nature was such that she preferred to pretend familiarity with her strange surroundings and she assumed an air of what she considered ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... conceited, self-important young whippersnappers!" fumed Mr. Brewster. But he found that he had no audience, as Sherwen had followed the scientist out ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... he evidently intended to be dignified strides. For the first time he honoured her with a searching scrutiny. Poor Dorothy felt as if the black eyes of this self-important dwarf were reading her inmost thoughts. She became sick with apprehension, and her eyes fell before his, In another minute ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie
... number, however, when asked if they were not rather too self-important, bent his head quickly downward, and replied that he couldn't see the point, which was exceedingly brassy ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various
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