Self-conceit1 may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Frog and the Ox
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses2
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
John Blake
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity3 he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
For God hates utterly4
The bray5 of bragging6 tongues.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
