Conceit Quotes

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

— William Shakespeare

“Ego is an illusion of I.”

— Amit Kalantri

Isolation breeds conceit.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

— Ahad Ha'am

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

— Bruce Barton

“Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

— Tom Clancy

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

— William Goldman

“She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!”

— P.L. Travers

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

— William Hazlitt

“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

— C. S. Lewis

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

“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

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

— Philip Sidney

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to…

— Franz Grillparzer

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

— Paul Klee

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if…

— E. B. White

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

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

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

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

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of…

— Emma Goldman

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…

— George Eliot

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";…

— John Balguy

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

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

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards…

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“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

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

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

“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

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

With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character…

— Michael Schur