Quotes about conceit

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.

— W. H. Auden

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

— Francis Bacon

See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]

— Bible

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— George Eliot

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

— George Eliot

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

— Max L. Forman

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

— Alexander Hamilton

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.

— African Proverb

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

— William Shakespeare

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

— William Shakespeare

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.

— Thomas Szasz

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

— William M. Thackeray

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

— Thomas Traherne

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

— Harry S Truman

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

— Johnny Unitas

Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.

— Source Unknown

Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.

— Source Unknown

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

— Walt Whitman

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

— Dejan Stojanovic