quotations about conceit
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
Even conceited people don't like conceited people.
EDWARD GRUBE
Watching the Clock: 260 Meditations from Real Life
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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
Conceit is a great help to a shallow wit.
E. P. DAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
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
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 26:12
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN
The Princess Bride
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 slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
DAVID KINNAMAN
UnChristian
A swelled head seldom covers a broad mind.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
The conceited are to be pitied and not blamed, because as a rule we shun their company.
BERNARD LEVI JEFFERSON
Models of Structure and Style
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"
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.
ELLEN TERRY
The Story of My Life
Involvement with conceit is a disease, involvement with conceit is a tumor, involvement with conceit is a dart. Therefore ... we will dwell with a mind in which conceit has been struck down.
BUDDHA
Salayatanasamyutta
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
No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.
DAVID WHYTE
Consolations