“I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“Really, the insufferable conceit of the man. How dared he have the unutterable gall to know how her knees weakened at the… — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours,… — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
![“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3d1/anonymous-1_character_there-is-one-vice-of-which-no-man-in-the_919503.jpg)
