Isolation breeds conceit.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

I am not in the roll of common men.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence.

There's a big difference between confidence and conceit.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

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

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

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

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

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