| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexandre Dumas | Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works |
| Anthony Powell | He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited. |
| Ben Jonson | The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. |
| Bible | Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. |
| Bible | The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. |
| Bible | Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. |
| Ellen Terry | Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. |
| Georg C Lichtenberg | He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. |
| George Eliot | I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. |
| Hannah More | In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. |
| John Ruskin | Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin, |
| Johnny Unitas | Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. |
| Jonathan Swift | Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. |
| Max L Forman | Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. |
| Oscar Wilde | To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. |
| Phillipine Proverb | He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. |
| Sophocles | Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow. |
| Thomas Traherne | Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? |
| William Shakespeare | Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. |
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