Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi 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
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit. — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation. — Margaret Deland 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.” — Brian Spellman 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
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
