He was a showman who mistook himself for a servant.
Belloc had the bad luck to mistake himself for a serious writer.
However he mistook himself for Dennis Bergkamp and produced an awful, Welbeckian chip which was pushed away by Adrian.
Janet Turner Llanon, Ceredigion John Inverdale seems to mistake himself for a celebrity, without realising that his achievements are minimal compared with those whose trains and coat tails he rides upon.
But in that intellectually eventful age pretty much everybody who was anybody was to one degree or another a passionate amateur, and a man like Victor Frankenstein — curious, excitable, fervently optimistic — could easily mistake himself for a genius.
"Bull Market - A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius".
It isn't a fact universally acknowledged that a person who mistakes his opinions for facts may also mistake himself for God.
He did not make that mistake himself.
He could try to fake such a mistake himself.
But he appeared in no hurry to take responsibility for the mistakes himself.
