63 Quotes About Conceited
- Author Greg Egan
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Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
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- Author Dario Fo
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I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.
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- Author Harry Emerson Fosdick
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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- Author Michel Faber
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Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.
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- Author Elliott Gould
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There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
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- Author Alexander Hamilton
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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- Author Horace
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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- Author Thomas Hood
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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- Author William Hazlitt
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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