Quotes About Conceit

that it is not the sins and transgressions themselves that trouble us properly; for they have their existence in their minds and understandings only, that commit them; but our own opinions concerning those sins. Remove then, and be content to part with that conceit of thine, that it is a grievous thing, and thou hast removed thine anger.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing:

for a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable.

Receive without conceit; release without a struggle.

It's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

What's the difference between you and God? God never thinks he's you.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

El orgullo engendra siempre destrucción: el orgullo engulle vivos la mente y el corazón y el alma.

is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?

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

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you'd do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.

He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

There's nothing more unattractive than a vain man

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little. *

It amused me momentarily to think of those dark matter laceworks of mass as actual cobwebs, structures spun for some purpose, then abandoned and left behind when that purpose served and their denizens moved on. It was a conceit, of course: I didn't imagine for an instant that some godlike creature or species had actually-literally or figuratively-pulled the universe out of its ass. But the image entertained me.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne. "Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.