Conceit Quote by Marcus Aurelius

What would the world be without him, and those like him?

— Janet Morris

He would make a lovely corpse.

— Charles Dickens

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

— Anonymous

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

— Meister Eckhart

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

— George Bernard Shaw

You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.

— Zig Ziglar

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining,…

— Peter Bayne

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

— Martin Luther

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he…

— John Locke

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton