Conceit Quotes

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

I am not in the roll of common men.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.