17 Quotes on Conceit

• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  Author: John Wooden

• Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

  Author: Ellen Terry

• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  Author: William Seward

• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

  Author: Alain Sage

• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

  Author: Channing Pollock

• With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

  Author: James Laughlin

• Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

  Author: Jerome

• Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

  Author: Alexandre Dumas

• Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Author: Willa Cather

• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  Author: Abraham Cahan

• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

  Author: Max Beerbohm

• Conceit is God's gift to little men.

  Author: Bruce Barton

• Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Author: Louisa Alcott

• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Author: Louisa Alcott

• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  Author: Aesop

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