Conceit Quotes - Page 2

• If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Conceited, Men

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• To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

  Thomas Hood

  Conceited, Wind, People

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• If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Conceited, Pay, National Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

  Alexander Pope

  Beauty, Nature, Conceited

  Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.44

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• Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Morning, Stupid, Sleep

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Love, Conceited, America

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.257, Vintage

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• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Successful, Conceited

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• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Mean, Conceited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Thomas Traherne

  Encouraging, Love You, Conceited

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Self, Perfect

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Respect, Conceited, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.245

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• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Conceited, Persons, Small Packages

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blessing, Conceited, Political

  Letter to Robert Morris, 30 Apr. 1781

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• [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.

  Robert Moses

  Cities, Taste, Architecture

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• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Admiration, Driven

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

  David Lee Roth

  Conceited, Faults, Explanation

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• Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Achievement, Form

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.51

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• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Conceited, Thinking, Religion

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.223

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• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Conceited, Narcissism

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

  Vincent Voiture

  Believe, Men, Quality

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• But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Self, Hobbies, Peculiar

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47

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• People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Conceited, Self, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

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• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Life, Women, Conceited

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• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Beautiful, Fall

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