Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.” — George Soros Copy Share Image
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they… — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is,… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Katika maisha, kila mtu ni kiongozi na ni mfuasi pia kutegemeana na hali. Kiongozi hatakiwi kuwa na kiburi, wala hatakiwi kuwa na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
