Quotes About Conceit

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

All sufferings come from false pride.

Sylvia grabs my sleeve. "He's a looker." "I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.

In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity – enmity towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Oh what a wanker I am the greatest wanker of 'em all!

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

Through your rags I see your vanity.

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.