The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Conceit is what makes a little squirt thinks he is a fountain of knowledge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
“In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I… — David Niven Copy Share Image
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Now shame is the only direct attack on conceit, the defensive image of oneself. Conceit is the common denominator of the Organization… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon. — Rose Henniker Heaton Copy Share Image
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image