Quotes about Conceit

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Hidden pride is a most pernicious vice, the more so since it is not recognized and does not recognize itself. On the outside, it may appear gentle, mild, and even humble. Yet inside, it burns away bitterly. The person who is subject to such pride becomes inordinately elated when he is successful but is disturbed and dejected in the face of adversity or failure.

What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

Most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.

I'm tired of self-important mentalities.

And the pathetic part of it is that frequently those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos by a show of tumult and conceit which is truly nauseating. As Shakespeare put it: " … man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / … Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

Wanting to look good to others is also a form of the desire of the eyes.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

It made her feel sorry for her husband: she was discovering how vulnerable to flattery a conceited old man could be.