Quotes About Conceit

Many people use arrogance to hide their own ignorance.

Pride is cold company

Admit you found it pleasant to be worshipped. Admit that you liked the idea of being a sort of dea ex machina--saving people from their own folly when they didn't in the least want to be saved from it.

El orgullo viene delante de la destrucción y un espíritu arrogante antes de la caída»

You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

And there was a beautiful view, But nobody could see. 'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng, Look at me! Look at me!

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me

She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.

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

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.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

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

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

An empty cart rattles loudly," she said, meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.

In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.

Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race in the universe, for who else believes that God has nothing better to do than sit around all day and help him out of tight spots?" It

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

And I'll wager you thought him the handsomest thing that ever you saw in your life." "I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I'd be very glad to admire him. But in life he's an arrogant pig, and I didn't care for him at all. 'Mind who you look at, wench.' Foo!

The arrogance of ignorance.

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

He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.