Top 291 Conceit Quotes & Sayings

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Isolation breeds conceit.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

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

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

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

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

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.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

This might be a conceit of government officials, but there's the idea that maybe you can make a difference. It's a conceit. Maybe it's unhealthy. We all believed we could make a difference.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

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

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

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