Conceit Quotes - Page 11

• Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

  George Herbert

  Witty, Laughter, Ignorance

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.9

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• A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Atmosphere, Certain

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• Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Nerves, Opinion

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• Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  Paul Hauck

  Children, Self Esteem, Teaching

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• Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Character, Details, Doe

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• Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

  Cecil Beaton

  Intelligent, Enthusiastic, Frank

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Pride, Self

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• Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

  Michael Drayton

  Liars, Desire, Prove

  'The Barrons' Wars' (1603) canto 6, st. 94

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• The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Self, Firsts

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Errors, Fool

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.18

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• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Stars, Sight

  "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.

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• Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Done, Research

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• As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.

  Shadia Drury

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

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• If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Conceited, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Abandonment

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• Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
  thyself of, when thou wilt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Grief, Causes, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Disappointment, Heart

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• Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

  Mao Zedong

  Honesty, Matter, Modesty

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

  Elvis Costello

  Future, Defeat, Premonition

  Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982

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• Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Paris, Towns, Resentment

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3913, Delphi Classics

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• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Growing Up, Women, Thinking

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• To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

  Richard Dawkins

  Water, Religion, Puddles

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• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Might

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.379

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• This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Stupid, Reading

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