Quotes About Conceit

I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?

After all, would the world really miss this fatuous little suppository, with his preening self-confidence and emetic cuteness?

El orgullo es como un caramelo que se acaba pronto.

Assuming he had knowledge and wealth to leave to his descendants was mere arrogance, Yoshiro now realized.

To attribute foreseeable necessity to the catastrophe of Germany and the European Jews would be to give it a meaning that it didn't have. There is an unseemly optimism in such an assumption. In the history of mankind there is more that is spontaneous, wilful, unreasonable and senseless than our conceit allows. —GOLO MANN, GESCHICHTE UND GESCHICHTEN, P. 170

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There is too little beauty in the world,' says the prince airily. 'But that is not my area of greatest conceit.

Next time you'll remember not to drop your guard,' the knight says, observing the wounds on Oak's cheek. 'My vanity took the worst of the blow,' he says. 'Worried about your pretty face?' the knight asks. 'There is too little beauty in the world,' says the prince airily. 'But that is not my area of greatest conceit.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Potter journal entry: "It is odious to a shy person to be snubbed as conceited, especially when the shy person happened to be right, and under the temptation of sauciness.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.

It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Born on third base and think they hit a triple

What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all posterity—wiser than those who will have had more experience,—the old desire of ruling over posterity—the old recipe for enabling the dead to chain down the living

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.