Quotes About Being Conceited

#1. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.

Oscar Wilde

#2. 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

#3. hardly anyone knows what vainglory is anymore. If anything, people use the word "vain" or "vanity" today to mean being conceited or puffed up about yourself (usually in an unjustified way) - roughly speaking, it's a form of pride equivalent to having an inflated sense of your worth or importance.

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

#4. I'm not being conceited or anything, but we have a great team.

Brandon Jacobs

#5. However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make anyone conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets?

George MacDonald

#6. I was told i was conceited today ... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect ... but come on lets be real ... EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

Arik Maldonales

#7. I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard - very mean, or very conceited and all - and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.

J.D. Salinger

#9. 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

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#11. First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#12. I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Gertrude Stein

#13. 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

#14. Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal's obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#16. What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

#18. A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.

Seth Godin