Conceit is God's gift to little men
- Bruce Barton quotes
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think
they carry their comfort about with them.
- George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between
confidence and conceit. Nelson, when young, was piqued at
not being noticed in a certain paragraph of the newspapers,
which detailed an action wherein he had assisted.
"But never mind," said he, "I will one day have a gazette of my own."
- Charles Caleb Colton
Conceit is incompatible with understanding
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye (st. 4)
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
- Thomas Hood
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
- W. H Auden English-US poet, dramatist, editor
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
- Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
- William Shakespeare
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
- Alain Rene Lesage
Failures are usually the most conceited of men.
- D. H. Lawrence
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