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“Conceit is incompatible with understanding”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“Conceit is God's gift to little men”
Bruce Barton Quotes |
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“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”
Alain Rene Lesage Quotes |
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“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 12)
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“The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 16)
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“Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things,
but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own
conceits.”
Bible Quotes Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 16)
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“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they
carry their comfort about with them.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: The Mill on the Floss (bk. V, ch. IV)
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“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Good-Bye (st. 4)
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“The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Sejanus (act V, sc. 1)
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“In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Florio (pt. I)
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“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Function of the Artist
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“Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at III, iv)
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“These signs have marked me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do show
I am not in the roll of common men.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Glendower at III, i)
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“Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, vi)
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“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.”
Sophocles Quotes Source: Antigone (707)
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“Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Polite Conversation (dialogue II)
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“Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.”
Max L. Forman Quotes |
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“He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.”
Anthony Powell Quotes |
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“To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.”
Ellen Terry Quotes |
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“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”
Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes |
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“Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.”
Alexandre Dumas Quotes |
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“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
George Eliot Quotes |
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“He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.”
Phillipine Proverb Quotes |
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“Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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