To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
[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.
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.
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.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.
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.
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.
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.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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?"
Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.
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.
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.
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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.
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.
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