Quotes About Conceit

The arrogance of these people!

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Conceit I heard a winter tree in song: Its leaves were birds, a hundred strong; When all at once it ceased to sing, For every leaf had taken wing.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers' belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn't.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed.

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.

But Doctor Gordon wasn't like that at all. He was young and good-looking, and I could see right away he was conceited.