Best Conceited Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

“Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.”

“Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.”

Ifs World War Force Demand Including Pleasant Defeated Adopted Commanders Stance Repercussions Conceited Unleashed Aggressors Truce Azerbaijan

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.”

World Spiritual Romance Literature Sound Interest Originals Profound Conceited World Literature

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.”

Ifs Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Great Success Conceited Trout Peg

Book:The Complete Fly Fisherman

Source: The Complete Fly Fisherman

“Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”

Ifs Men Believe Mean Worry Conceited

Book:Masterpieces of murder

Source: Masterpieces of murder

“Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.”

Ifs Men Persons Doe Art Hate Proud Ill Ignorant Thee Imaginary Be Proud Thyself Envious Reproach Conceited Perhaps Love

Author:Epictetus

“A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.”

Ifs Mean Self Negative Direct Statements Objectives Delusion About Yourself Accurate Subjective Conceited Self Delusion

Book:Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

“Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.”

Sleep Morning Stupid Afternoon Conceit Conceited

Author:Rose Henniker Heaton

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

Self Race Conceited

Author:Horace

“Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.”

Knows Way Facts Used Crazy Changed Phones Details Motherhood Silly Used To Be Cells Cell Phone Conceited Masons Drastic Photo Shoots Silly Things Small Details Single Picture

Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.”

Men Faces Certain Passion Doubt Figures Divine Tests No Doubt Slips Conceited Test Of Time

Book:First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

Source: First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

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

Ifs Political Politics Blessing Economics Debt Conceit Conceited Federalist National Debt Debt By Founding Fathers

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.”

World Self Pride Conceited

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

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

Ifs Proud Bounds Sake Pursue Theological Conceited

Author:J. I. Packer

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

Bored Perceive Bores Boast Egotism Conceited

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We are so conceited and so unproud.”

Humility Pride Arrogance Conceited

Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.”