Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

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

George Eliot

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

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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.

Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Jonathan Swift

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

Ellen Terry

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Elliott Gould

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Kanye West

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

Kanye West

I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH

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.

Mark Twain

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Paul Pierce

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Noel Coward

It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

Ray Romano

I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.

Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Sarah Silverman

I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, I want pussy! Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.