Quotes About Conceit

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance.

Mengira bahwa kita bisa pergi begitu saja dan tak dirindukan adalah keangkuhan yang paling luar biasa.

They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes.

I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting

I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In

The vain man does not think he is vain.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

So much the better — so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.