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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello

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

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore

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

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud. — Steven Erikson

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

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones. — George Soros

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

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General 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

So the dubbed conceit
Played nursery of cheat
To clear the I of sleet ... — Allen Tate

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly — C.S. Lewis

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit. — Bob Dylan

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

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well, — Walter Scott

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

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. — Kellie Elmore

Conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. — Margaret Deland

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time. — Robin Hobb

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

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding. — Plato

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

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit. — Plato

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

And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard. — J.D. Salinger

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

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom. — Aristotle.

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

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. — Myrtle Reed

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. — Jane Austen

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

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. — Wally Lamb

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

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting. — Brian Spellman

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

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back. — Brian Spellman