quotations about conceit
Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
Even conceited people don't like conceited people.
EDWARD GRUBE
Watching the Clock: 260 Meditations from Real Life
Conceit is pride and arrogance on steroids.
MICHELLE SINGLETARY
The Power to Prosper
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 26:12
The conceited are to be pitied and not blamed, because as a rule we shun their company.
BERNARD LEVI JEFFERSON
Models of Structure and Style
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Conceit is both inflation and deflation of the sense of self, though only the former usage is common. Conceit is what results when we believe the internal dialogue--believe the ego's ... insistence that we are better or worse than others--and identify with that comparative evaluation as who we are.
NOAH LEVINE
The Heart of the Revolution
Conceit is a great help to a shallow wit.
E. P. DAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Conceited people tend to display all kinds of prejudices, which are again their way of pointing out how superior they are. However, the showdown comes when a conceited person meets with a serious setback. That is when he is apt to have a nervous breakdown, because it seems his whole world is crushing down on him. He has built such a narrow structure for his own personality that he has no broad base of inner security to fall back on.
FRANK SAMUEL CAPRIO & FRANCES SPATZ LEIGHTON
How to Avoid a Nervous Breakdown
I realize now that I've lost my prize
Tell me how can I live this way?
Foolish conceit, at my heart, it would beat
And to think that my heart would obey
BING CROSBY
"At Your Command"
Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
DAVID KINNAMAN
UnChristian
I've seen many conceited people in my time, and I've always believed that the more someone thinks of himself on the outside, the less that he actually thinks of himself on the inside.
DAN BAEL
Common Sense for the Common Man
We always have envied conceited people. Life must be so satisfactory to those who are unconscious of their own defects and of other people's superiority.
INA FIRKINS
The Anchora Delta Gamma, 1894
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
JOHN WOODEN
They Call Me Coach
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.
ELLEN TERRY
The Story of My Life
I am so conceited that I do not believe the gods would create so potent a being as myself for so prosaic an ending.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
letter to his wife from the trenches, December 15, 1915
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
The Princess Bride
There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you the idea that
You’re too good to die
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit
BOB DYLAN
"Disease of Conceit"
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
ROBERT HALF
attributed, Forbes Magazine, vol. 124