[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste.… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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