Conceit Quotes

Vanity does not pay the bills.

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do, " the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is, " said Pope Clement.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

The art of making much show with little substance.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.