Quotes About Conceit

Under all wrong-doing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

Conceited little megapuppy.

there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Pride goes before destruction.

Borrowed plumes.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

You must remember, too," he added, "that we deal with no ordinary criminal, but with the second greatest brain in the world." I forbore to pander to his conceit by asking the obvious question.

Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.

But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.' 'What is that?' ' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering." -Caroline to Ursual.

Precisely. A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say "I have been clever and lucky!" No, he says only "I have been clever!

I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been…

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.