Quotes About Conceit

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

Vanity is but the surface.

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

beetle-spirited vaporing

Such was humanity's self-love, Nadar concluded, that most were inevitably disappointed when they finally saw a true image of themselves.

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.