#conceit

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#against #attempt #conceited #like #people

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. ↗

— Aesop

#greater #mind #smaller

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty #conceit #humor #love #beauty

His head was thrown back, his chest heaving, and the look on his face was more indicative of pain than pleasure. Rosemary snatched her fingers back, certain she’d misunderstood the technique somehow. But he whimpered piteously and she realized, no, she couldn’t have misunderstood. Because (a) she was a genius, and (b) it just wasn’t that complicated ↗

— Louisa Edwards

#sexual-naivety #love

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#conceit #danger #finest #genius #gifts

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest

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

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. ↗

— Neil Cavuto

#hate #i #people #pompous

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves. The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#compassion #conceit #life