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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Causes, Conversation, Wit

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• Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Vanity, Puff

  John Ruskin (1899). “On the Old Road: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature (Complete)”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Sophocles

  Judging, Speak, Imagine

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• People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Thinking, People

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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, Vanity

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• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Selfish, Jealous, Love Is

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

  Ben Jonson

  Rome, Two, World

  Ben Jonson (1990). “Sejanus His Fall”, p.208, Manchester University Press

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• These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Common, Shows

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [42]

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• He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Life, Rivals, Narcissism

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Talking, Dear God

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.35

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• Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.126, Penguin

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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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• Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Success, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn, Melvin George Wiebe (1997). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856”, p.265, University of Toronto Press

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• Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO.

  Drake

  Confidence, Money, Humble

  Song: Forever

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• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Ignorant, Standards

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.49

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• I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

  Drake

  Money, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Headlines, Album: Take Care, 2011

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Life, Narcissism, Narcissist

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

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• He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fashion, Hipster, Ideas

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• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  A. J. McLean

  Feel Good, Sound, Looks

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

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• Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  War, Azerbaijan, World

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the meeting with journalists from Diaspora, October 16, 2010.

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• Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

  Connie Willis

  Writing, Cat, Ideas

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• What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Business, Philosophy, Learning

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book II, Chapter 17,

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• I'm not being conceited or anything, but we have a great team.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Team, Great Team

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• But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, People, Praise

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• For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

  William Goldman

  Beauty, Beautiful, I Love You More

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