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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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?
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Good-Bye (st. 4)
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Sejanus (act V, sc. 1)
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In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
Author: John Ruskin
Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Function of the Artist
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Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Antigone (707)
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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.
Author: Max L. Forman
Source: None
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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.
Author: Anthony Powell
Source: None
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Author: Ellen Terry
Source: None
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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Source: None
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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.
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Source: None
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
Author: Phillipine Proverb
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Author: Thomas Traherne
Source: None
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Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Author: Johnny Unitas
Source: None
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