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Conceit Quotes

1.
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
David Lee Roth

Authors on Conceit Quotes: Bill Vaughan William Shakespeare Johnny Unitas Marcus Tullius Cicero Margaret Deland Sri Chinmoy David Lee Roth Mercedes Lackey William Hazlitt Petr Skrabanek Jerome K. Jerome Margaret Oliphant Idries Shah Dejan Stojanovic Michael Drayton Abraham Joshua Heschel Johann Kaspar Lavater Bob Dylan Francois de La Rochefoucauld Cecil Beaton Nathanael Emmons Samuel Johnson Edgar Allan Poe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bobby Darin Leo Tolstoy Al Gore Gautama Buddha Thomas Carlyle Aesop Bion of Borysthenes Noel Coward Charles Caleb Colton
2.
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.
Bill Vaughan

3.
Frivolity is inborn,
conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

4.
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad Ha'am

5.
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil Beaton

6.
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.
Gautama Buddha

7.
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.
John Calvin

8.
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

9.
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
Michael Drayton

10.
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
Robert A. Heinlein

11.
Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.
Noel Coward

12.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Norm MacDonald

13.
Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.
Aesop

14.
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.
Samuel Johnson

15.
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

16.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Leo Tolstoy

17.
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
Bill Vaughan

18.
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin

19.
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Nathanael Emmons

20.
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
Bion of Borysthenes

21.
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
Mercedes Lackey

22.
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.
Thomas Carlyle

23.
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic

24.
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25.
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.".
William Hazlitt

26.
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
Sri Chinmoy

27.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence.
Johnny Unitas

28.
I am not in the roll of common men.
William Shakespeare

29.
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
Idries Shah

30.
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.
Johnny Unitas

31.
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.
Charles Caleb Colton

32.
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome

33.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

34.
Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.
Bob Dylan

35.
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
William Shakespeare

36.
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
Petr Skrabanek

37.
Isolation breeds conceit.
Charles Dudley Warner

38.
So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.
Allen Tate

39.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

40.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
Edgar Allan Poe

41.
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
Margaret Deland

42.
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
Al Gore

43.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
Margaret Deland

44.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Margaret Oliphant