Conceit Quotes

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Frivolity is inborn,
conceit acquired by education.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

I am not in the roll of common men.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Isolation breeds conceit.