Most Conceited Quotes

#1. In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.

Dagmar Godowsky

#2. It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed. 'The world has held great Heroes,

Kenneth Grahame

#3. He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him - everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

Douglas Adams

#4. I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Oscar Wilde

#5. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#6. I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

David Lee Roth

#7. We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Abraham Lincoln

#8. There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Paul Pierce

#9. For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!

Jamie Eason

#10. Your Holiness, elite education makes us arrogant, conceited. It makes us think we are the answers to everything. You know what this expensive education does to us? It destroys us.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. If, being cowardly, conceited and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbor's welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty."[109]

Heather Choate Davis

#12. Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

Michel Faber

#15. I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

Baldur Von Schirach

#16. He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.

Jane Austen

#18. Bluefur sighed. Now that he'd moved into the warriors' den, there would be no getting away from the conceited young tom. If Snowfur had to find a mate, why couldn't she pick a cat that Bluefur actually liked?

Erin Hunter

#19. Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

H.L. Mencken

#20. Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

David Berg