Quotes About Conceit

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,

And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must

Vanity is of no value

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

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.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

I am holier than thou.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.

They think, always, that they are cleverer than they really are, that they have the ability to defeat the police, the rule of law, the very essence of society in order to achieve their ends.

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance.

Tis easy to see they're not used to having anything the way the brag about everything.