Quotes About Conceit

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

He turned and strode out of the square with the brisk arrogance of a man who had never imainged the possibility of his being in the wrong.

This is an empire called "narcissism.

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain.

You've learned that pride if often the first victim of ambition

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

we felt very complacent and conceited, and better satisfied with life after we had added it to our list of things which we had seen and some other people had not.

ostentatiously

Sometimes she's so stuck up she'd drown in a rainstorm.

la vanità cerca l'applauso degli altri per costruirci sopra un'alta opinione di sé, è presupposto della superbia che quella esista fin da principio

Ihmiselle ylittämätöntä on hänen turhamaisuutensa tyydyttäminen. Mikään vamma ei koske häneen niin kuin turhamaisuutensa kokema kolaus.

Was für ein Neuling ist doch der, welcher wähnt, Geist und Verstand zu zeigen wäre ein Mittel, sich in der Gesellschaft beliebt zu machen! Vielmehr erregen sie, bei der unberechenbar überwiegenden Mehrzah, einen Haß und Groll.

Why no. I'm too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior.

The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

Self importance is self pride.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.