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| Conceit Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The smaller the mind the greater the conceit | Aesop | |
| 2 | Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favourable opinion they have formed of themselves. | Aristotle | |
| 3 | Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overwhelming self-respect, relieve others of the duty of respecting them at all. | Beecher | Henry Ward |
| 4 | There has never been a poet or orator who thought another benefit than himself. | Cicero | Marcus |
| 5 | Those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves. | Colton | Charles Caleb |
| 6 | Compared to Velazquez I am nothing, but compared to contemporary painters, I am the most big genius of modern times . . . but modesty is not my specialty. | Dali | Salvador |
| 7 | Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. | Holmes | Oliver Wendell |
| 8 | Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. | Jerome | Jerome |
| 9 | Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. | King Alfonso X of Spain | |
| 10 | Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. | Longfellow | Henry Wadsworth |
| 19 quotations on Conceit |



