Conceit Quote by Myrtle Reed Download Open image “Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.” — Myrtle Reed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceit Lovable Pride Selfishness Supreme Vanity
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves,… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ...… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it. — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
