More quotations tagged with “conceit”
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
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
—Bruce Barton
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
—Bernard Bailey