Quotes of: Conceited Keyword

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Amit Kalantri

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexandre Dumas

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.

Orson Welles

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

Thomas Hood

Margo Channing: You're not much of a bargain, you know. You're conceited and thoughtless and messy.

All About Eve

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

The Princess Bride

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

City of Bones

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Paul Pierce

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.

Steven Erikson

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Walter Savage Landor

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Andrew Lo

There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either.

Jack Reynor

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims of Goethe

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Walking

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Joseph Altuzarra

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

Mehmet Murat ildan