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He wanted Americans to break free of their isolation and foreigners to have a more realistic view of Americans. I am often disturbed by the conceit of literate foreigners about what they think they know about us, .. The information they receive is dangerously contaminated and distorted. (Quote by - Bruce Blair)
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. (Quote by - Johnny Unitas)
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. (Quote by - John Templeton)
It appears that with his curious voice, his ways, he decided to brazen it out, to be himself with an ornamental courage and an impressive conceit,. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
When selfishness and conceit are eradicated from within, then there is no attachment to Maya. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Subduing selfishness and conceit, he is united with the Lord. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow. (Quote by - Sophocles)
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.". (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. (Quote by - Johnny Unitas)