Quotes About Conceit

Talent is God given-be thankful. Praise is man given-be humble. Conceit is self given-be careful.

Some men, by dint of excessive egotism, manage to persuade their contemporaries that they are very great men indeed: they publish their acquirements so loudly in people's ears, and keep up their own praises so incessantly, that the world's applause is actually taken by storm.

...for Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt...

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

What she didn't know, what she took for granted about living with Karl and being a wife, was far larger than the things she could name.

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.

El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

Bir insan kibirli olmadan da gururlu olabilir. Gurur insan?n kendisiyle ilgili, kibirse baÅŸkalar?n?n bizimle ilgili görüÅŸleriyle alakal?d?r. Sayfa:31

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.