Conceit Quotes

• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

  John Lyly

  Ignorance, Empty Vessels, Sound

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Sick, Guy

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• The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eye, Veils, Pretender

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

  Norm MacDonald

  Flattery, Delusion, Deceived

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• Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

  Isabel Allende

  Wise, Humble, Men

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• Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

  Bobby Darin

  Thinking, Knowing, Egotism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They are but beggars that can count their worth.

  William Shakespeare

  Beggar

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.297

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• Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Character, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.290, Penguin

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• Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

  Norm MacDonald

  Mind, Succeed, Flattery

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• One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pride, Thinking

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• It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Facts, Acquaintance

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Harmony, Enchanting

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Gentleman, Would Be

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 2,

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Blessed, Fighting, Self

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Likes, Speak

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• It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Men, May

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• It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Pete Hamill

  Song, Mean, Hair

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• To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both."—Bacon: "Advancement of Learning".

  Charles Darwin

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• 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.".

  William Hazlitt

  Harmony, Hours, Serene

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Conceited, Sea

  The Innocents Abroad Ch. III

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