Top 27 Quotes About Vanity And Conceit
#1. Nevertheless, vanity and conceit are defects from which scarcely any convict is exempt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
Idries Shah
#3. When you learn to see the beauty in emptiness, your life will become more abundant.
Debasish Mridha
#4. A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Samuel Johnson
#5. When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
James Cromwell
#6. I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.
Woody Allen
#9. There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
Nova Ren Suma
#10. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Raheel Farooq
#11. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.
Kellie Elmore
#12. Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
John Ruskin
#13. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#14. Only Peter Rabbit didn't get any. Don't you remember?" said Grandfather. "He will this time," said Joe. "At last Peter Rabbit has his blackberries and cream, on his birthday.
Gertrude Chandler Warner
#15. Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#16. Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot
#17. But sometimes, you need to close your eyes and jump and trust that someone will catch you.
Nina Croft
#18. OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
Patricia Velasquez
#19. He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.
Elin Hilderbrand
#20. Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
Louis O. Kelso
#21. Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
Aisha Tyler
#22. Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
Myrtle Reed
#23. The team is an extension of the coach.
Don Meyer
#24. Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
William Shakespeare
#25. Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
William Hazlitt
#26. Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot.
Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.
Ilona Andrews
#27. I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.
Charles Dickens