Quotes About Conceit

Pride is a dangerous indulgence.

Thinks the sun shines out yer clacker.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud, Foley thought.

If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.

The solipsistic conceit of the age—that the young would change the world by 'doing their own thing', 'letting it all hang out' and 'making love, not war'—was always an illusion, and it has not worn well. But it was not the only illusion of the time, and by no means the most foolish.

She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, and brightness and shadows moved across his body. He was beautiful. She admired him, and he flashed a grin at her. Almost as beautiful as you are conceited, she thought at him, and he laughed out loud.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.

The U.S. conceit that its financial and regulatory system could withstand massive capital inflows on a sustained basis without any problems arguably laid the foundations for the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. The thinking that "this time is different"—because this time the U.S. had a superior system—once again proved false. Outsized financial market returns were in fact greatly exaggerated by capital inflows, just as would be the case in emerging markets.

I have been told that my above-described theory is all wrong and is only due to my Central European conceit, because the English do not care for the opinion of foreigners. In every other country, it has been explained, people just build streets and towns following their own common sense. England is the only country of the world where there is a Ministry of Town and Country Planning. That is the real reason for the muddle.

Pride goes before a fall.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride ruined the angels.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

God hates those who praise themselves.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.

El ego, después de todo, era la raíz de todo mal.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.