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Tag Name "Conceit" (147)

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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 half my sum of wealth.
William Shakespeare
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.
Aesop
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Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
Evan Esar
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
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conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
Margaret Deland
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
John Ruskin
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
William Shakespeare
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Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.
Zicheng Hong
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
William Hazlitt
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Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.
George Zimmerman
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Conceit is thinking you're great egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
Isabel Allende
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Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Ellen Terry
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
Emma Goldman
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
Alexander Pope
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Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.
James Dobson
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Leo Tolstoy
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There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
Zane Grey
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People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.
Slick Rick
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In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Stella Adler
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