Top 26 Quotes About Conceited People
#1. To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Thomas Hood
#2. I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.
Neil Cavuto
#3. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot
#5. My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
Thomas Piketty
#6. See how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. I'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
Bjork
#9. I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#11. 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
#12. we felt very complacent and conceited, and better satisfied with life after we had added it to our list of things which we had seen and some other people had not.
Mark Twain
#13. The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
John Templeton
#14. People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.
Slick Rick
#15. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.
Cassandra Clare
#16. Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
Wallace Stevens
#17. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I'M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE.
Kanye West
#18. No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#19. It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.
Alice Hoffman
#20. Christian Grey, expect the unexpected - fifty shades of fucked-up.
E.L. James
#21. If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.
Frederick Buechner
#22. 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
#23. I'm going to put them in the slam, my friend, and if I hear they got their puckery little assholes cored down there at Thomaston, I'm gonna send them cards saying I hope whoever did it had AIDS.
Stephen King
#24. Trust in God allows us to live with active expectation, not cynicism.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#25. 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
#26. My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.
Tracy Lane