Conceited Quotes - Page 2

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Self, People, Laughing

  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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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Long, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Understanding, Conceit

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, May, Greece And Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pay, National Debt, Ifs

  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, Improvement

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

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Comfort

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

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Hate, Vanity

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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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, Principles

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

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• Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

  William Goldman

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.46, A&C Black

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• We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Bears, Deprived

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

  William Shakespeare

  Body Work, Strongest, Body

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• To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Encouraging, Debt, Praise

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• [The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

  Ben Jonson

  Play, Plain English

  1614 Bartholomew Fair, Induction.

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• It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Self

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

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• There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

  Elliott Gould

  Arrogant, Youth, Machinery

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• It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

  Brenda Ueland

  Letting Go, Art, Mistake

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

  Slick Rick

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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• Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

  Jonathan Swift

  Well Said, Wells, Ifs

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 2

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blessing, Political, Debt

  Letter to Robert Morris, 30 Apr. 1781

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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, America, Echoes

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

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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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

  Thinking, Religion, Atheism

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

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• Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

  Ellen Terry

  Progress, Obstacles, Conceit

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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