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CONCEIt quotes
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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.
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.
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.
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself.
A man—poet, prophet, or whatever he may be—readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
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.
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.
It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!
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.
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.
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.
Conceit is to nature, what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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.
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.
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats.—The first always imposes on itself; the second frequently deceives others.
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