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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
— Oswald Chambers
Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything ...
— Robert G. Ingersoll
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
— David Lee Roth
What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
— Henry David Thoreau
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
— Ellen Terry
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61
— Abraham Verghese
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
— John Ruskin
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
— George Zimmerman
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
15General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Conceit is the enemy of creativity.
— Kevin Ansbro
There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.
— Benvenuto Cellini
In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I'm a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.
— Caitlin Crews
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
— Thomas Carlyle
Conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
— Margaret Deland
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
— Thomas Carlyle
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
— Ahad Ha'am
There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.
— Charles Bukowski
I am not in the roll of common men.
— William Shakespeare
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
— Steven Erikson
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
— Franz Grillparzer
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
— Bobby Darin
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.
— Kadiatou Diallo
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
— Ralph Cudworth
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
— William Hazlitt
It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.
— Wilkie Collins
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
— Kurt Eichenwald
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
— William Shakespeare
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
— D.H. Lawrence
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
— Mercedes Lackey
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
— Victoria Magazine
Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.
— Jackie Collins
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
— Charles Darwin
Vanity does not pay the bills.
— Robert Black
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
— Orson Welles
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
— Douglas Alexander
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
— Sri Chinmoy
Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". — Richard Nance
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
— Adriana Trigiani
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
— Bill Crawford
Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Oh, the enormous conceit of the man!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
— Louisa May Alcott
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
— Norm MacDonald
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
— Sextus Empiricus
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
— Criss Jami
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Humility is the worst form of conceit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.
— Charles Martin
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
— Francis Bacon
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
— Nathanael Emmons
It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.
— Carl Sagan
I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!
— Rick Riordan
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
— Cecil Beaton
It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
— Lionel Shriver
The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.
— Ben Macintyre
