Quotes About Conceit

The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.

Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.

Spears said that pride many times exonerates a greater stupidity than a blank brain.

We're so arrogant that we think we're studying music whereas we're not even capable of living, not even capable of existing, for we don't exist, we get existed...

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Those who shouldn't are often those who most willingly flaunt it.

You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you?" I asked Raphael, annoyed with his arrogance.

I'm such a clever Toad.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

El orgullo, el hecho de creer mentiras sobre uno mismo para aumentar el valor de uno mismo, a menudo era el preludio de una desagradable caída.

You think very highly of yourself," Kai answered, equally quietly, but far more deadly, "if you believe that it doesn't matter.

The world has no place for those who are proud.

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself.

You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.

Su misma superioridad lo perdió

It made her feel sorry for her husband: she was discovering how vulnerable to flattery a conceited old man could be.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.