Quotes about Conceit

“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”

“Conceit is God's gift to little men.”

“Conceit is incompatible with understanding.”

“Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.”

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”

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

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

“Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”

“Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.”

“Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.”

“Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.”

“Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.”

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

“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”

“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”

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

“Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”

“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”

“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”

“It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.”

“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”

“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”