Quotes About Conceit

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Self-Righteousness

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

The only thing I have to declare is my genius.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Arrogance takes many forms.

wanting to look good to others is also a form of the desire of the eyes.

No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

In the end, it doesn't matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn't matter a damn bit. We're no avatars, no sons of god or man. We're only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.

Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms.

To rise again - to be the same person that you were - you must have your memory perfectly fresh and present; for it is memory that makes your identity. If your memory be lost, how will you be the same man? Why do mankind flatter themselves that they alone are gifted with a spiritual and immortal principle? Perhaps from their inordinate vanity. I am persuaded that if a peacock could speak he would boast of his soul, and would affirm that it inhabited his magnificent tail.

Ruin, comes when the trader, whose heart is lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler

Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...

Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God's satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.

Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings set neatly and clothes handsomely.

Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction.

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

I'm afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling," sneered Henny. "And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up conceit.

I remember [Dr. Kinsey] personally as a shy, quiet man and a gracious host, but in his work he was a supreme egoist, and left me with the impression that he believed his books on sexual behavior were the definitive ones, and there was not much left to be said on the subject. Perhaps his professional conceit was warranted, for above all, he was a dedicated research scientist, and I was happy to have made even a small contribution to his studies.