#conceit

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ↗

— John Wooden

#be grateful #be humble #careful #conceit #fame

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#born #conceit #could #filled #half

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don't you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one's ever heard of, and we shall treat you worse than the lowest lackey!' They strive for justice, they stand on their rights, and yet they've slandered him like infidels in their article. We demand, we don't ask, and you will get no gratitude from us, because you are acting for the satisfaction of your own conscience! Queer sort of reasoning!... He has not borrowed money from you, he doesn't owe you anything, so what are you reckoning on, if not his gratitude? So how can you repudiate it? Lunatics! They regard society as savage and inhuman, because it cries shame on the seduced girl; but if you think society inhuman, you must think that the girl suffers from the censure of society, and if she does, how is it you expose her to society in the newspapers and expect her not to suffer? Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophesy. Isn't that topsy-turvydom, isn't it infamy? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#christianity #conceit #god #liberal #nihilism

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. ↗

— Alain Rene Le Sage

#man #original #pride #sins #were

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#conceit #percy-jackson #self-esteem #dating

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement. ↗

— Iain Pears

#communication #conceit #languages #mockery #papal-authority

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it. ↗

— James Dashner

#conceit #funny #funny

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#ignorance #sarcasm-humor #humor

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#art #conceit #else #ever #half