Conceit Quotes
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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)
I offer my mind and body, and I renounce my selfishness and conceit; I walk in Harmony with the Will of the True Guru. I am forever a sacrifice to my Guru, who has attached my consciousness to the Lord. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
The Lord is the Lover of His devotees; He inspires them to perform devotional worship. True devotional worship consists of eliminating selfishness and conceit from within. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? / For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. (Quote by - Bible)
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I think it could definitely be disturbing. It's taken the central theme and it's definitely the same story, but the elements of the book have been changed quite a lot. It's still set 30 years in the future and the conceit is still the same, that no one has had a baby anywhere for eighteen years and our reluctant hero has ended up linked with the only pregnant girl on the planet. That's still the same, but Alfonso's done a really fascinating, unusual exploration of where things could be going, and that's still very, very strong in the movie. It's a very unusual take. People are assuming it's a sci-fi movie but it's almost the opposite of that. It's like now, but worse. It's the environment we're living in. It's not futuristic. It's like things have not ended up that great and we're in a world where there are no children, which is a pretty bleak place. Half the movie's a chase movie, really, but it's in a really extraordinary vision of the future. (Quote by - Clive Owen)
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and ve. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
I've progressed from being a conceited brat during the early years. I was very rude to people when I think back on it. (Quote by - Jeremy Spencer)
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Everything happens according to the Lord's Will; what can the poor people do? Attached to self-conceit and duality, they have forgotten their Lord and Master. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Patriotism .. is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Those who serve the True Guru are very beautiful; they cast off the filth of selfishness and conceit. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. (Quote by - Ellen Terry)
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. (Quote by - Thomas Traherne)
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth. (Quote by - Elliott Gould)
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. (Quote by - Bible)
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. (Quote by - Bible)
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. (Quote by - Channing Pollock)
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, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves. (Quote by - Willa Sibert Cather)
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. (Quote by - William M. Thackeray)
This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was. (Quote by - David Niven)
Those who act in egotism, selfishness and conceit die; what do they gain?. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)
I serve my True Guru, and meditate on Him all day and night. Renouncing selfishness and conceit, I seek His Sanctuary, and speak sweet words to Him. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
I remain attached to the Lord's Feet, and eradicate self-conceit from within. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. (Quote by - John Blake)
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. (Quote by - George Eliot)
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited. (Quote by - Anthony Powell)
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit. (Quote by - John Unitas)
He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around. (Quote by - Johnny Pesky)
People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person. (Quote by - Slick Rick)
The eyes which look upon corruption do not know the Love and the Fear of God. Conquering self-conceit, one obtains the Name. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Genuine ignorance is.. profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. (Quote by - John Dewey)
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon. (Quote by - Rose Henniker Heaton)
The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
One who eliminates selfishness and conceit is redeemed in the Court of the Lord. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. (Quote by - Ralph Cudworth)
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. (Quote by - Max L. Forman)
Without sounding conceited about it, it was hard but it did not seem like such a huge leap, because I had done a lot of big films and been around enough talented directors to know what to do if I was in their position. (Quote by - James McTeigue)
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular. (Quote by - Pete Hamill)
It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. (Quote by - Hartman Rector Jr.)
I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love. (Quote by - )
The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she had no conceit. She was completely modest. (Quote by - Jon Vickers)
I became aware that I did not know as much about my musical trade as puerile conceit had led me to suppose. My dedication to practice did not burgeon fully until I came under the ponderous, yet benign, influence of my great master, Eugene Ysaye. (Quote by - William Primrose)
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. (Quote by - David Brandt Berg)
The Giants will always represent New York in the sort of in-your-face move that being in the Super Bowl presents to the way the rest of the country mostly thinks of us: huge, cold, rich, conceited, unnatural, deserving therefore of all our misfortunes. (Quote by - Richard Gilman)
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
As he submits to God's Will, and surrenders to the Creator, he is rid of selfishness and conceit. And when, O Nanak, he is merciful to all beings, only then shall he be called a Muslim. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
Conceit is incompatible with understanding. (Quote by - Count Leo Tolstoy)
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. (Quote by - Robert Moses)
See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (Quote by - Bible)
Conceit is God's gift to little men. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?. (Quote by - Dr. Carl Sagan)
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The lyrics are so straightforward. I can't believe people misinterpret that song. I've heard the song is conceited. Everybody has a mind that works in a different way, but I thought it was very clear. (Quote by - Tara Slone)
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. (Quote by - Phillipine Proverb)
