Conceit Quotes

“Be not wise in your own conceits.”

“I am not in the roll of common men.”

“Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.”

“The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.”

“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.”

“Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.”

“Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can tender a reason.”

“In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.”

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“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.”

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“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”

“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”

“Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.”

“We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not: he is like us; he is thinking of himself.”

“Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making…”

“Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth.”

“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.”

“Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.”

“It was Mr. Greenaway's conceit, and a terrifically promising one, that in this "Tempest" Mr. Gielgud's Prospero should also be a mirror image of Shakespeare at the end of his career, with a further association to the actor himself, nearing the end of his career as an actor.”