quotes about Conceited
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
-- A. J. McLean -
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
-- AesopSource : Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
-- Baldur von SchirachSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.
-- Barbara Sher -
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it. It's part of a new Scottish racism, which I loath - this thing that everything horrible is English. It's conducted by the great unread and the conceited w***ers at the SNP, those dreary little pr**ks in Parliament who rely on bigotry for support
-- Billy Connolly -
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
-- Bob Marley -
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So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.
-- Brad Pitt -
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 -
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior
-- C. S. Lewis -
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If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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 -
In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.
-- Dagmar GodowskySource : Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult
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Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.
-- David Berg -
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
-- David Lee Roth -
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
-- Ellen TerrySource : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
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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 -
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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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 -
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
-- George Eliot -
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Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
-- Greg Egan -
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
-- Harry Emerson FosdickSource : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”
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The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
-- Horace -
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When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.
-- Isa BowmanSource : Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”
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Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
-- James Merrick -
For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!
-- Jamie Eason -
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.
-- Johann Peter EckermannSource : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.277
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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 -
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man
-- Joyce Cary -
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
-- Kanye West -
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I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH
-- Kanye West -
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
-- Kanye West -
He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters could become worse," he muttered. "I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady." Her head jerked up. "Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.
-- Loretta Chase -
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 -
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men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them
-- Margaret Mitchell -
I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.
-- Neil Cavuto -
Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and is not resentful
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
-- Paul Laurence DunbarSource : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009). “The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com
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There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.
-- Paul PierceSource : "Paul Pierce to retire at end of NBA season, ending 19-year career", www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2016.
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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
-- Paul Watson -
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
-- Paul Watson -
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I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.
-- Rocky Marciano -
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 SargsyanSource : Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the meeting with journalists from Diaspora, October 16, 2010.
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People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.
-- Slick RickSource : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
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If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
-- Theodore GordonSource : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
-- Thomas Hood -
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
-- Thomas NagelSource : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press
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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 -
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.
-- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
How do I stay confident? I just look at my accomplishments that I've made so far. It's a very conceited thing to say, of course, but I just look at everything I've done and all the fans that write letters to me. Sometimes I even look at the good YouTube comments and really pay attentions to them. I've inspired a lot of kids, and it's not every day you get to hear about that when you have this kind of career.
-- D-PrydeSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
-- Michael Finley -
I'm not being conceited or anything, but we have a great team.
-- Brandon Jacobs -
Google is ridiculous. Everyone uses Google, and that's why Google has such an attitude. Because it's so popular, it's conceited. I mean, it has a serious attitude. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? 'Um, did you mean...?
-- Arj Barker -
I’m conceited, I got a reason
-- Remy MaSource : Song: Conceited, 2006
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