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  • Conceit spoils the finest genius.

    Life   Conceited   Genius  
    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.
  • Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com
  • If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

    Conceited   Lakes   Sea  
    Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
  • If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

  • We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

    Life   Women   Conceited  
  • The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

    Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press
  • If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

  • I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

    Song: Headlines, Album: Take Care, 2011
  • The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude that we have the right to use them to serve our needs. We must supply these needs by other means.... If the vegan ideal of non-exploitation were generally adopted, it would be the greatest peaceful revolution ever known, abolishing vast industries and establishing new ones in the better interests of men and animals alike.

    Attitude   Believe   Mean  
  • Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge
  • Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

    Time   Truth   Taken  
  • No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

  • I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

    Conceited   Men   Doors  
    "Fictional character: Sarah". "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", February 11, 2005.
  • To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

    Conceited   Wind   People  
  • I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.

    "Kanye West Sounds Off About Himself (Again) In E-mail To Media" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2009.
  • For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

  • I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

    Hate   Conceited   People  
  • 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.

    "Romeo et Juliette: tragédie".
  • To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

  • I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

    Money   Mean   Conceited  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics
  • I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

    Sexy   Smart   Mean  
    "Eva Longoria Divorce: Star Opens Up About Split From Tony Parker", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.
  • Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

    "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.
  • I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

    Witty   Clever   Humorous  
    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.652, Wordsworth Editions
  • Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  • You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

    Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
  • We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

  • If I talk about what I'm good at, I seem like I'm a conceited egomaniac.

    "Interview | Patrick Rothfuss – Part One". Interview with Aidan Moher, aidanmoher.com. June 8, 2007.
  • 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!

    Life   Music   Conceited  
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