More quotations tagged with “conceit”
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
—Sophocles
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
—Joseph Addison
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
—John Blake
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
—Epictetus