quotations about conceit
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Even conceited people don't like conceited people.
EDWARD GRUBE
Watching the Clock: 260 Meditations from Real Life
Conceit is both inflation and deflation of the sense of self, though only the former usage is common. Conceit is what results when we believe the internal dialogue--believe the ego's ... insistence that we are better or worse than others--and identify with that comparative evaluation as who we are.
NOAH LEVINE
The Heart of the Revolution
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
ROBERT HALF
attributed, Forbes Magazine, vol. 124
Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
We always have envied conceited people. Life must be so satisfactory to those who are unconscious of their own defects and of other people's superiority.
INA FIRKINS
The Anchora Delta Gamma, 1894
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
JOHN WOODEN
They Call Me Coach
I am so conceited that I do not believe the gods would create so potent a being as myself for so prosaic an ending.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
letter to his wife from the trenches, December 15, 1915
I realize now that I've lost my prize
Tell me how can I live this way?
Foolish conceit, at my heart, it would beat
And to think that my heart would obey
BING CROSBY
"At Your Command"
There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you the idea that
You’re too good to die
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit
BOB DYLAN
"Disease of Conceit"
A swelled head seldom covers a broad mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Conceit is a disease
That the doctors got no cure
They’ve done a lot of research on it
But what it is, they’re still not sure.
BOB DYLAN
Disease of Conceit
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 26:12
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
MYRTLE REED
The Spinster Book
Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
I've seen many conceited people in my time, and I've always believed that the more someone thinks of himself on the outside, the less that he actually thinks of himself on the inside.
DAN BAEL
Common Sense for the Common Man
Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls on him and the waves in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Works
Conceited people tend to display all kinds of prejudices, which are again their way of pointing out how superior they are. However, the showdown comes when a conceited person meets with a serious setback. That is when he is apt to have a nervous breakdown, because it seems his whole world is crushing down on him. He has built such a narrow structure for his own personality that he has no broad base of inner security to fall back on.
FRANK SAMUEL CAPRIO & FRANCES SPATZ LEIGHTON
How to Avoid a Nervous Breakdown
Humility does not mean that conceit doesn't arise in the mind; it means that conceit is met with the wisdom of not taking the inflation personally. Usually when we are feeling inflated and conceited, we believe the ego's insistence that we are better or worse than others. Humility is a practice that allows us to override that insistence and arrive at a wise relationship to the ego. It takes constant vigilance, because the mind is constantly creating (and attempting to give permanence to) a self out of that aspect of our experience that we call ego, constantly creating conceit.
NOAH LEVINE
The Heart of the Revolution