quotations about conceit
God has no use for conceited people, but shows favor to those who are humble.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 3:34
Don't be conceited: even postage stamps become useless when they get stuck on themselves.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear. Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny dagger-thrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside. Without that breast-plate, the sword of talent cannot force its way through the battle of life, for blows have to be borne as well as dealt. I do not, of course, speak of the conceit that displays itself in an elevated nose and a falsetto voice. That is not real conceit, that is only playing at being conceited; like children play at being kings and queens, and go strutting about with feathers and long trains. Genuine conceit does not make a man objectionable. On the contrary, it tends to make him genial, kind-hearted, and simple. He has no need of affectation, he is far too well satisfied with his own character; and his pride is too deep-seated to appear at all on the outside. Careless alike of praise or blame, he can afford to be truthful.
JEROME K. JEROME
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
"Notebook H", Aphorisms
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
C. S. LEWIS
Mere Christianity
The conceited are rarely shy; for they value themselves much too highly to expect depreciation.
CHARLES DARWIN
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
AESOP
Aesop's Fables
Men are so conceited, that they think they deserve every thing they want, and may do every thing to procure it; and nothing but fear restrains man from dealing with man as nations deal with nations, that is, from devouring one another.
JOHN TRENCHARD & THOMAS GORDON
Cato's Letters
Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
None so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Live a life of privilege
Pushing back the last, the lost, the least of these
To dull the edge of conscience with conceit
RELIANT K
"The Last, the Lost, the Least"
He who conceits himself wise, has an ass near at hand.
CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN VON HOFMANNSWALDAU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
ZIMMERMAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Conceit is the ability to value one's own feelings, ideas, opinions, and decisions as infinitely superior to everyone else's, even when they are quite obviously nothing of the kind (even, in fact, when they are not one's own at all, but stolen or borrowed from others).
JAKE HORSLEY
Matrix Warrior
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT
The Mill on the Floss
He is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set downs.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Conceit is a strange disease: it makes everyone sick except the person who has it.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Standing on the top it's a long way down
It's too easy to feel conceit
Its too easy to feel elite
The propaganda that you're fed.
Don't think you can count on it
SICK OF IT ALL
"Cruelty"
Conceit is really self-pity masquerading as self-importance, however. It is the means by which ... humans hide, from themselves and others, the insidious, crippling fact of their own self-loathing.
JAKE HORSLEY
Matrix Warrior