Quotes About Conceit

and, without question, first place when counting assholes per square foot.

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree that nothing will satisfy the arrogant except false flattery and fake praise.

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

Someone feeling like knowing everything & being the best and stuff, kinda annoying.

All heroes are fools, he liked to say. What he meant was, all heroes but me. So who could correct him when he erred? He had stood on the beach looking at Telegonus and believing him a pirate. He had stood in his hall and accused Telemachus of conspiracy. Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as "the white man's burden."2

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Thunder Strikes on those who put themselves above everybody else.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Really, the insufferable conceit of the man. How dared he have the unutterable gall to know how her knees weakened at the sight of him, how she felt full of life and spirit when he was with her, how his very touch sent fire coursing through her veins in a way she hadn't known existed outside the pages of lending-library novels!

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Egotism fears its own self.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.