Conceit Quotes

183 quotes by 150 authors

Life knows us not and we do not know lifeâ€”-we donâ€™t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever… — Joseph Conrad
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of… — William Shakespeare
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he… — Christopher Hitchens
A quaint conceit, don't you think? — Mercedes Lackey
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first… — Anne Bronte
James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he… — Laini Taylor
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 been so damaged… — Lionel Shriver
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the… — Christopher Hitchens
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search… — Charles Darwin
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic
Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or… — Jonathan Evison
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us,… — Charles Kingsley
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an… — Carl Sagan
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn… — Epictetus
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. — Hartman Rector, Jr.

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