Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person. — Slick Rick
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is… — James Laughlin
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we… — Mata Amritanandamayi
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit… — Thomas Paine
Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit. — Bob Dylan
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit,… — Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day… — Mark Twain
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I… — William Hazlitt
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same… — Samuel Johnson
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the… — George Herbert
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown… — Alexander Pope
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in… — Pete Hamill
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. — John Lyly
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a… — Ludwig von Mises
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty… — J. B. Priestley
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee
This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great… — David Niven

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