Quotes and Sayings About Conceit
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
-- Al Gore -
Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
-- Bobby Darin -
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
-- Cecil Beaton -
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
-- David Lee Roth -
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
-- Elvis Costello -
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
-- Emma Goldman -
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
-- Idries Shah -
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.
-- Johnny Unitas -
There is a difference between conceit and confidence.
-- Johnny Unitas -
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
-- Margaret Deland -
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
-- Margaret Deland -
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
-- Margaret Oliphant -
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
-- Michael Drayton -
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
-- Nathanael Emmons -
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
-- Paul Klee -
The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
-- Petr Skrabanek -
From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
-- Ahad Ha'am
