#conceit

You honor our humble abode,' said Bean. 'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#conceited #funny #peter-wiggin #weird #funny

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said. ↗

— James Laughlin

#goes #idea #just #long #me

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Neil Cavuto

#hate #i #people #pompous

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

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Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality. ↗

— Andrew Lo

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