Conceited quotes
133 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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!"
"Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking."
"I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults."
"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
"A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package."
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"I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
"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."
"Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up."
"If you done it, it ain't bragging."
"We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control."
"The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance."
"Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes."
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction."
"But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."
"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
"Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God."
"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth."
"It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction."
"A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man"
"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."
"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."
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
"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."
