A Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French - Writer
June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

C. S. Lewis

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

C. S. Lewis

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

Allen Iverson

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

C. S. Lewis

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Abraham Cowley

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Agatha Christie

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

Terry Pratchett

A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

W. C. Fields

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

Elmore Leonard

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Will Rogers

I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

Sarah Silverman

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

Michael Finley

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.