Quotes of: Conceit Keyword

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Alain Rene Le Sage

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Jerome K. Jerome

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

A. J. McLean

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Little Women

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Brenda Ueland

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Iris Murdoch

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

Gone with the Wind

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

The Little Prince

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

The Sun Watches the Sun

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind. Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

Richard Nance

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Harvey Mackay

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Archbishop Colloredo: [to Mozart's father] Your son is an unprincipled, spoiled, conceited brat!

Amadeus

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Al Gore

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Elliott Gould