CONCEIT

Beecher, Henry Ward
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Buxton, Charles
If its colors were but fast colors, self-conceit would be a most comfortable quality.—But life is so humbling, mortifying, disappointing to vanity, that a great man's idea of himself gets washed out of him by the time he is forty.

Colton, Caleb C.
None are so seldom found alone, or are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Eliot, George
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property, which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.

Emmons, Nathaniel
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Greville, Lord
No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A man—poet, prophet, or whatever he may be—readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

Hazlitt, William
Conceit is the most contemptible, and one of the most odious qualities in the world.—It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Home, Henry
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Jerrold, Douglas
It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!

Lavater, John Caspar
The more one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.

Legouve, Ernest Wilfrid
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Plutarch
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

Pope, Aleander
Conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Ruskin, John
Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.

Socrates
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Swetchine, Madam
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be, to listen at a key hole. —It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Thackeray, William Makepeace
They say that every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats.—The first  always imposes on itself; the second frequently deceives others.