Quotes about Conceit

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity — enmity towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you'd do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

I began to see as all this weighing and sifting what this text means and that text means, and whether folks are saved all by God's grace, or whether there goes an ounce o' their own will to't, was no part o' real religion at all. You may talk o' these things for hours on end, and you'll only be all the more coxy and conceited for't.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself