Quotes About Conceit

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

And she knew that this one thing—the urge to boast of one's accomplishments—had betrayed more secrets and destroyed more careers than anything else.

The surest way to get your head blown off is to have it up your ass.

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I've always been a narcissist.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics

All of these things cater to our inborn stupidity, and our willingness to be persuaded against all the evidence that we are indeed the center of the universe and that everything is arranged with us in mind.

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics, just as there is no worldliness compare with ostentatious antimaterialism.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.

but no one is more heavily burdened than a guy who thinks he knows a thing.

Hitler was unable to conceive that his fist could not smash through everything.

Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.

Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.