Conceit Quotes
These are some of the best 'Conceit' quotations and sayings.
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A man - poet, prophet, or whatever he may be - readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
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Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats. - The first always imposes on itself; the second frequently deceives others.
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
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Conceit is the most contemptible, and one of the most odious qualities in the world. - It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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Conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.
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Conceit not so high an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Conceited men are a harmless kind of creatures, who, by their overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
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He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most comfortable quality. - But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing to vanity, that a great man's idea of himself gets washed out of him by the time he is forty.
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It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
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It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!
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No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself.
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None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.
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