One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!” — P.L. Travers Copy Share Image
Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha 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
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
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
“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
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
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Conceit is the illusion that our flaws aren't real. - Mwando, Gift Tawanda — Mwando Gift Tawanda Copy Share Image
