Quotes About Conceit

A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.

nothing more than his favorite image of himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris reflected my favorite image of me—a darkly handsome young airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered and immaculately groomed. Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.

A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.

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

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Self-inflation and conceit are generally the external signs of inner emptiness and self-doubt; a show of pride is one of the most common covers for anxiety.

Or, il ne s'agissait nullement d'un délirant mais d'un cas extrême de cette connerie renseignée, informée sur tout, qui sait, qui « connaît » et à qui « on ne la fait pas ».

Pride Goeth before the fall.

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest —and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault

Il n'y a pas de vanité intelligente.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

N'importe quoi dans la vanité c'est mieux que rien

El orgullo va delante de la destrucción, y un espíritu altanero, delante de una caída»

The Christian paradise is a worthy emulation of the Muslim paradise; and as to Buddha's nirvana it is only a conceit of paralytics.

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror.

Pride renders faith impossible.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. 6For among them

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.

lo que se toma por inteligencia suele ser vanidad y tontería.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

So infatuated are they by their own   splendor and magnificence, as to imagine that the whole world was made   only for them.

Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.