Conceited Quotes

164 quotes by 129 authors

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. — Elizabeth Bowen
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is… — Louisa May Alcott
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other… — Dale Carnegie
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde
Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. — Zig Ziglar
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. — Brenda Ueland
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from… — Walter Savage Landor
The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the… — John Templeton
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The… — John Templeton
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel
Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is… — David Berg
Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core… — George Eliot

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