delusions of grandeur

Noun

Meaning

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. Jane Wagner

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him. Richard Dawkins

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. Ayn Rand

.. to express himself well, the artist should be hidden... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition. Chris Diamantopoulos

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. Raymond Chandler

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