Quotes About Conceit

Vanity dulls the senses.

The second you think that you are something is the same second you confirm that you are nothing

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, "Self Storage," and I thought, "I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad.

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple, and cast naked into the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity.

More than any other vampire type, Narcissists evoke mixed feelings. We love their accomplishments, but hate their conceit. We deplore the way they ignore our needs, yet unconsciously we respond to the infants inside them that need us so much.

Half-learn'd witlings

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Eventually my ego is going to be the size of the planet Earth.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

You have to be a bit mad and conceited to go on television.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Certainly. You don't owe him anything. As for me, I'm not that conceited. I'm not actually conceited at all. I merely think it's common sense to like myself.

It is my conceit to expose myself to reproach only from others, never from myself.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.