Quotes on Conceited

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.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

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.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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

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.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.