CONCEIT

Quote: Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Quote: Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-, American Historian

Quote: Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

Quote: It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Author: Max L. Forman

Quote: A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister

Quote: A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Author: Alexander Hamilton 1757-1804, American Statesman

Quote: Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Quote: He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

Quote: Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet

Quote: Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you. Author: African Proverb Sayings of African Origin

Quote: Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist

Quote: People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

Quote: Conceit is incompatible with understanding. Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

Quote: Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. Author: Thomas Traherne 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic

Quote: Conceit is God's gift to little men. Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

Quote: Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. Author: Johnny Unitas American Football Player

Quote: Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: If you done it, it ain't bragging. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet