History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job… — Johnny Unitas Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched,… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
