Quotes About Conceit

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

His head was turned by too great success.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

Confidence is not arrogance.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.