Quotes and Sayings about Conceit
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
- Aesop
(Related: Conceit, Mind)
"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Power, Talent, Genius, Charm, Conceit, Danger, Gifts, Goodness, Modesty, Will)
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Power, Talent, Genius, Charm, Conceit, Consciousness, Danger, Goodness, Modesty, Will)
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Men, God, Conceit)
"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Balance, Conceit, Modesty, Popularity)
"Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart."
- Abraham Cahan
(Related: Heart, Conceit, Envy, Fight)
"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Arrogance, Conceit, Man)
"I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: People, Hate)
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Education, Conceit)
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Successful, Man, Right)
"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works."
- Alexandre Dumas
(Related: Love, Art, Conceit)
"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."
- Elliott Gould
(Related: Nothing, Youth)
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
- Augustus Hare
(Related: Life, Babies, Conceit, Importance, Intellect, Mothers)
"We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Self)
"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."
- Thomas Hood
(Related: People, Wind)
"Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear."
- Jerome K. Jerome
(Related: Conceit, Man)
"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
(Related: Religion)
"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."
- James Laughlin
(Related: Idea, Conceit, Needs, Saying)
"God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: God, Hate, Old, Vanity)
"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
(Related: Nature, Mind, Self)
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
- Iris Murdoch
(Related: Men, Thinking)
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
- Channing Pollock
(Related: Conceit, Desire, Greed, Living, Self)
"People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person."
- Slick Rick
(Related: People)
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Causes, Conceit, Conversation, Wit)
"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: People, Being, Envy, Fortune, May, Merit, Pride)
"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Science, Reason, Stars, Universe)
"Pride and conceit were the original sins of man."
- Alain Rene Le Sage
(Related: Conceit, Man, Pride)
"The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit."
- William H. Seward
(Related: Conceit, states)
"Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress."
- Ellen Terry
(Related: Progress, Conceit)
"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
(Related: People, Self)
"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
(Related: Mistakes)
"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
- Johnny Unitas
(Related: Bragging, Conceit, Confidence, Job)
"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."
- Johnny Unitas
(Related: Bragging, Conceit, Confidence, Difference, Job)
"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
(Related: Success, Artist, Danger, Luxury)
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
- John Wooden
(Related: God, Talent, Conceit, Fame, Man, Self)