“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
With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings. — Paul Hauck Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two,… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family… — Benvenuto Cellini 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
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov 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
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
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 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
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
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
