Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

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.

William Hazlitt

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

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

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

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?

Alexander Hamilton

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

Alexander Pope

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

Douglas Adams

Conceited little mega-puppy.

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.

Thomas Nagel

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Thomas Hood

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

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.

Tom Clancy

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Sophocles

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

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.

John Ruskin

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

George Eliot

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

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Horace

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

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

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.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

A. J. McLean

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