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- The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm
- Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
- Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
- 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
- Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows… — Willa Cather
- Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to… — Watchman Nee
- Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
- When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them.… — Sun Tzu
- Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris
- The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. — Thomas Carlyle