Conceit Quotes

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Charles C. Grevvile

The art of making much show with little substance.

Macaulay

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Bible

She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they cannot find them, being themselves too near the ground to have any shadows; and what becomes of them at last, there is but one who knows.

George MacDonald

I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.

In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.

Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo