Conceit Quotes - Page 5

• I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

  George Eliot

  Conceited, Thinking, People

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.382, George Eliot

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• Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
  Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
  They are but beggars that can count their worth;
  But my true love is grown to such excess,
  I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Conceited, Substance, Matter

  "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".

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• There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

  Johnny Unitas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

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• Gratitude is of the very essence of worship. ... When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives. Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Blessing, Doors

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• None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tired, Found, Term

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.50

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• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  Orson Welles

  Mean, Play, Reason

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• We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Virus of the Soul" (p. 93), 1999.

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• A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

  J. B. Priestley

  School, Men, Style

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• It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

  Todd Solondz

  Littles, Able, Kind

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• A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, May, Worship

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Appreciation, Believe, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

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• We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Giving, Judging

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.452

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• Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Men, Self

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• No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Feelings, Mediocrity

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• A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Silly, School

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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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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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Islamic, Pride

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• My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Mother Daughter, Business

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

  Noel Coward

  Inferiority, Manifestation

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