Conceit Quotes

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.