Quotes About Conceit

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Hidden pride is a most pernicious vice, the more so since it is not recognized and does not recognize itself. On the outside, it may appear gentle, mild, and even humble. Yet inside, it burns away bitterly. The person who is subject to such pride becomes inordinately elated when he is successful but is disturbed and dejected in the face of adversity or failure.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses.

I know how to take care of myself." "No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don't know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That's conceit." She slapped the glass on the counter. "It's independence and capability." "To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.

Norman L. Geisler

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

You conceited pest.

For Man had flown too fast, had driven far beyond his physical capacity. Not by strength did he hold his starry outposts, but by something else…by depth of human character, by his colossal conceit, by his ferocious conviction that Man was the greatest living thing the galaxy had spawned. All this in spite of many evidences that he was not…evidence that he cast aside, scornful of any greatness that was not ruthless and aggressive.

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

He was seething, drunk on his own magnificence

Overconfidence will negate our technological advantage faster than anything the other guy could do.

Nothing's worse than a bad person who thinks he's good.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

Pride never admits its failures. Instead, the prideful person continues to push forward, blindly seeking self-gratification.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.