Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Pitt

So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.

Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Ben Jonson

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Henry Ward Beecher

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all

Alexander Hamilton

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Abraham Lincoln

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

A. J. McLean

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

Douglas Adams

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Alexander Pope

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

David Lee Roth

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Johnny Pesky

He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around.

Dario Fo

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.

Without sounding conceited about it, it was hard but it did not seem like such a huge leap, because I had done a lot of big films and been around enough talented directors to know what to do if I was in their position.

William Shakespeare

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

William Shakespeare

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

William Shakespeare

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Zoe Kravitz

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

Hermann Hesse

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

Jonathan Swift

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

George Eliot

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Horace

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Jessica Valenti

I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Jack LaLanne

You should be proud of what you're doing, but not conceited. If you can't be proud of yourself, you're a failure. And discipline. To do anything in life you have to have discipline. To accomplish anything, you have a goal, challenge yourself, and work until you accomplish that goal. Practice what you preach.

J. I. Packer

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Oscar Wilde

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Paul Watson

We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we can decide what will live and what will die, what will be saved and what will be destroyed, but honestly we're just a bunch of primates out of control.