Quotes About Conceit

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

Overconfidence is a curse

The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

But the whole town got vain over it

I have always been an arrogant man.

Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux.

Mademoiselle de Watteville, with a little flush of pride in thinking of the success of her Belvedere, discerned in herself a vast superiority over every one about her. No one guessed that a little girl, supposed to be a witless goose, had simply made up her mind to get a closer view of the lawyer Savaron's private study.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

The boastful are thin-skinned and the intolerant are forever looking over their shoulders

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

Arrogance is blindness.

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

1. I am superior to others. Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me. And: I would not feel sorry if someone were blamed for something I did. Circle one: Doesn't apply to me. Partially applies to me. Fully applies to me.

Pride is a steamroller. It'll clear the path for a while, but sooner or later it'll shift into reverse, and then . . . look out.

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

That cowboy's really full of himself. He thinks he's something and that means he's not.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.