Quotes About Conceit

The proud hate pride – in others.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

a man whose ignorance and perverseness are only surpassed by his pertinacity and conceit.

of all this world's creatures, the author is the vainest

Wonder is my people attributing the creation of the universe to an act of dismemberment. It is avoiding true mystery through fantasy. And if the universe refuses to conform to your fantasy does it cease to be wonderful That is conceit of the highest order. Nen Yim

but he boasted about the buildings as if they were his own design.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Sometimes we are so foolish in our thoughts that even fools would baulk at what we are thinking.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Shocking it is . . . It's what comes of being too handsome.

Where does this arrogant fantasy come from?

You're not even boasting about it." "Should I?" "You can't. You're too arrogant to boast.

You're unbearably conceited, was one of the two sentences she heard throughout her childhood, even though she never spoke of her own ability. The other sentence was: You're selfish. She asked what was meant, but never received an answer. She looked at the adults, wondering how they could imagine that she would feel guilt from an undefined accusation.

I do not think that there is any doubt that educated people possess a far wider range of humour than the uneducated class. Some people, of course, get overeducated and become hopelessly academic. The word highbrow has been invented exactly to fit the case. The sense of humour in the highbrow has become atrophied, or, to vary the metaphor, it is submerged or buried under the accumulated strata of his education, on the top soil of which flourishes a fine growth of conceit.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.