Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could… — Todd Solondz
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it. — Bobby Darin
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But… — Walter J. Phillips
In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of… — Stella Adler
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which… — John Muir
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right? — Will Rogers
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment… — D. H. Lawrence
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to… — Dwight L. Moody
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. — C.S. Lewis
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth. — Bill Vaughan
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye,… — Bill Vaughan
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we… — Augustus Hare
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through &amp… — Marilyn Monroe
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. — David Lee Roth

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