Quotes About Conceit

You are quite wrong about him, Felix had said. He has not been atan English school, or English university, and therefore is not like other young men that you know; but he is, I think, well educated and clever. As for conceit, what man will do any good who is notconceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. All the same, my dear fellow, I do not like Lucius Mason.

Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.

They ought to have looked forward meekly to the prodigious feats of posterity; but having too little faith and too much conceit, they were content to look behind and make comparisons with the past. They did not foresee the miraculous generation which is us.

That suggested two possibilities. It was either too unintelligent to understand him—or it was very intelligent indeed, with its own powers of choice and volition. In that case, he must treat it as an equal. Even then he might underestimate it—but it would bear him no resentment, for conceit was not a vice from which robots often suffered.

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

The only crime is pride.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

average men and women don't really exist except as a statistical conceit.

Most men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion. Vain

He glared at me and pointed at the plate of food. "Eat. I must return to the tent and see if Hisself requires anything." He smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Simus is telling his tall tales, and those city-dwellers are believing every word. I needs get back and poke holes in the bucket he carries his conceit in.

The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

How easy it is to believe yourself a god by the heart, and how hard it is to be one by the mind!

One always perishes by the self one assumes: to bear a name is to claim an exact mode of collapse.

If ever a man existed who had every right to be puffed up with his own conceit, Rosellen thought, it was Wynn in evening clothes.

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.