Quotes About Conceit

for 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 it and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. 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, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

for 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.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There

El orgullo nunca está lejos de la caída.

It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

Men had been puffed up with pride by notions not a tithe as excellent and practicable.

a fully flowered narcissist.

this whole thing about Christendom and a Christian world is a knavish trick on man's part, the notion that we really are Christians is a vain conceit by force of the knavish trick; on the other hand, the New Testament, entirely unchanged, is the guidebook for Christians, for whom things will go in this world as one reads in the New Testament, and who should not let themselves be disturbed by the fact that for knavish Christians things go differently in this world, a knavish world.

the personification of philistine triumphalism

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.