Quotes About Conceit

Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

Now, contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love; and thus was it with respect to Wilson. No one could look at him without conceiving a strong dislike, or a cordial desire to entertain such a feeling the first favourable opportunity. There was such an intolerable air of conceit about this man that it was almost as much as one could do to refrain from running up and affronting him.

In a world, it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.

For one can assume too much sometimes, in fits of conceited self-blame.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit … which I cannot but applaud.

He had once believed that all of existence was under the benign control of a caring omnipotence, after all. And crickets exist to sing us to sleep, too. There was no telling what other foolishness might have crept into his young, naive brain all those millennia ago. No longer, of course. Things end. Species die out. Faith in anything else was a conceit, the product of unchained ego, the curse of supreme self-importance.

It was a conceit to imagine that they knew the world; that they knew its every detail. Forces ever worked unseen, in elusive patterns no mortal mind could comprehend.

Karos has said again and again, justice is a conceit. It does not exist in nature. 'Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.' Unless, came the thought in Janath's voice, the two are one and the same.

autobiography is probably the most monstrous act of conceit that exists.

Love is the blind revelation of arrogance.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Arrogance is incurable.

keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature

You take yourself too seriously, he said slowly. You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You're so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don't go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That's nonsense! You're weak, and conceited! - Dom Juan

Tell me what you boast of and I´ll tell you what you lack!

There are no modest books, only arrogant ignorance.