quotes 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 DarinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
-- Cecil BeatonSource : Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”
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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 CostelloSource : Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
-- Emma Goldman -
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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 -
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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 DelandSource : Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”
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every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
-- Margaret OliphantSource : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.7470, Delphi Classics
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Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
-- Michael DraytonSource : 'The Barrons' Wars' (1603) canto 6, st. 94
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
-- Nathanael EmmonsSource : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.135
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
-- Paul Klee -
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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 SkrabanekSource : Petr Skrabanek (2000). “False Premises, False Promises”
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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