Conceited Quotes
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.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
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.
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
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.
Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around
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.
Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.
An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.
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.
i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.
