Quotes About Conceit

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Members of the ruling class are unwilling to admit themselves mistaken.

Dame Alice was suffering from nothing more than an indigestion of self-importance.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

I hate Russian dolls, they're so full of themselves.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

Even the tiny frog is spoilt by its mouth

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.