Top Conceit Quotes
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Alain Rene Le Sage
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Ellen Terry
Alain Rene Le Sage 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
Johnny Unitas 
Max Beerbohm 
Louisa May Alcott 
Willa Cather 
John Wooden 
Ellen Terry All Conceit Quotes
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden 
63% of people like this quote
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin
59% of people like this quote
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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