Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. - Channing Pollock
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. - William Shakespeare
Conceit is a strange disease: it makes everyone sick except the person who has it. - Evan Esar
Conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conceit is pride and arrogance on steroids. - Michelle Singletary
Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. - William Hazlitt
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. - Alexander Pope
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. - George Eliot
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. - Robert Half
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop
Those who are talentless themselves are the first to talk about the conceit of others; for mediocrity bears but one flower – ENVY. - Charles William Day
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. - Louisa May Alcott
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