Quotes About Conceit

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

That sovereign of insufferables.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" - Molly "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." - Kevin "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality." "I swear, somebody needs to spank you." "You are, like, so not the man to do it." "You are, like, such a damned brat.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

The man that never says "no" when questioned on subjects of which he is entirely ignorant, to avoid, as he imagines, being thought ignorant, but confidently puts forward guesses and assumptions as knowledge, will be known for his ignorance, and ill esteemed for his added conceit. An honest confession of ignorance will command respect where a conceited assumption of knowledge will elicit contempt.

The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed. The most outstanding of these weaknesses which stand between men and women and success are INTOLERANCE, CUPIDITY, GREED, JEALOUSY, SUSPICION, REVENGE, EGOTISM, CONCEIT, THE TENDENCY TO REAP WHERE THEY HAVE NOT SOWN, and the HABIT OF SPENDING MORE THAN THEY EARN.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

blinded by his past results.

Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools—by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category

True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future

There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.

Ngu d?t má»›i là th? hay sinh ra sá»± tá»± ph? ch? không ph?i là tri th?c.

man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.