82 Quotes About Conceit

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

Perhaps a century of the ascendant self, of the self's progressive liberation from any trammels not explicitly conceived to protect other selves, perhaps this progression, when wedded to the magic of technology serving not the state or even the corporation but the individual ego, perhaps it could reach no other logical endpoint, but the self as its own object of worship.

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.

Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.

Boastfulness and excessive pride are also the weak, self-destructive points that can reveal a person's lack of credibility and deficient integrity. ~ Angelica Hopes, The F. Trilogy

Cesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: „Better to be first in the village then the second in Rome!” I'm nothing in the village and nothing in the Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from Rua de Assuncao to the Rua de Vitoria; he's Cesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?

She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.