Quotes About Conceit

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

The play's plot is highly self-reflective, centering on a conflict between two teenage actors involved in the production of an original play, itself titled Teen Play. Said Diggins, "It's an unusual conceit, one truly meant to challenge its audience. What I intend to deliver," he added in a tone well known to longtime radio listeners, "is an utterly mah-velous evening of theater.

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.

I think; therefore, I am above average.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated.

La sonrisa de superioridad con que me enfrentaba a ellos me salía torcida.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

Alle Menschen sind mir in solchem Maße verhasst, dass es mich ärgern würde, wenn ich in ihren Augen weise wäre

Hay gente a la que no le importa pasar por mala, pero no soporta que se le ponga en ridículo.

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.

Vanity and pride are autistic complexes.

My ignorance is trying to flatter me that I know everything.

No human being can be immune to boasting. Even pretending you aren't bragging is already part of bragging.

is a funny thing how much more proud people can be of themselves if they never step back and take a good look in a glass.

Alas, in our age, some arrogantly believe that if they cannot comprehend something, then God cannot comprehend it, either.

As George MacDonald wisely wrote, "The one principle of hell is, I am my own!" 4 Fierce pride usually protects this wrong perception.

Society tends to be unjust, but not in the way the conceited imagine. There are always more masters who do not deserve their position than servants who do not deserve theirs.

Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.