quotations about conceit
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; Or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
CHANNING POLLOCK
attributed, The Book of Positive Quotations
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
JOHN RUSKIN
True and Beautiful
Many times, as we all know, conceited people with big egos have big mouths to match.
CHARLES RAMSEY
Ridin' with Rosie and Livin' with Evie
The corn bends itself downward when its ears are filled, but when the heads of the conceited are filled with self-adulation, they only lift them up the higher.
HORATIO SMITH
The Tin Trumpet
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
GEORGE ELIOT
Amos Barton
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overwhelming self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
H. W. BEECHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Forgive me all my vanity
Forgive me my conceit
Forgive me when I'm crawling
Like a beggar at Your feet
RODNEY CROWELL
"Ignorance Is the Enemy"