The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.” — Oswald Chambers 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Conceit is what makes a little squirt thinks he is a fountain of knowledge. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott 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
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image