quotations about conceit
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
Conceit is pride and arrogance on steroids.
MICHELLE SINGLETARY
The Power to Prosper
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 slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
DAVID KINNAMAN
UnChristian
Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a center is to a circle.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
From Day to Day with Holmes
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
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
Conceit is a great help to a shallow wit.
E. P. DAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Those who are talentless themselves are the first to talk about the conceit of others; for mediocrity bears but one flower--ENVY.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to Mr. Walsh, Jul. 2, 1706
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Self-conceit is a most dangerous shelf
Where many have made shipwreck unawares;
He who doth trust too much unto himself
Can never fail to fall in many snares.
EARL OF STIRLING
attributed, Treasury of Wisdom
Be not wise in your own conceits.
BIBLE
Romans 12:16
There are some who conceit themselves very learned whilst they know nothing, or very wise and clever while they are exposing themselves to perpetual ridicule for their folly, or very handsome while the world calls them plain, or very peaceable while they are always quarrelling with their neighbors, or very humble whilst they are tenaciously stickling for their own; it would be well if such conceits afforded a harmless pleasure to their authors, but unfortunately they only render them more offensive and disgusting than they would otherwise be.
G. CRABB
attributed, Day's Collacon
No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.
DAVID WHYTE
Consolations
Conceit grows as naturally as the hair on one's head, but it takes longer to come out.
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
By focusing on the trivial or superficial, conceited people do not distinguish between features for which they have responsibility and those with which they merely happened to be born. They base much of their self-esteem on characteristics that are beyond their control rather than on the results of their own efforts.
GROLIER EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
Ethics and Values: Volume 2
He was so conceited that he wore his mirrored sunglasses backwards.
MARY ANN MADDEN
New York Magazine, February 16, 1981
Conceited people are never without a certain degree of harmless satisfaction, wherewith to flavor the waters of life.
MME. DELUZY
attributed, Day's Collacon