Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do… — Carl Sagan
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. — Orson Welles
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows… — Tennessee Williams
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. — John Wooden
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. — William Goldman
From the very beginningâ€” from the first moment, I may almost sayâ€” of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief… — Jane Austen
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a… — Millard Kaufman
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most… — Thomas A. Edison
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind… — C.S. Lewis
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… — C.S. Lewis
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too… — Francis Bacon
Receive without conceit, release without struggle. — Marcus Aurelius
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and… — Emma Goldman
Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Christopher Marlowe
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings… — Robert A. Heinlein
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to… — Oswald Chambers
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis

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