#conceit

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#conceit #envy #every #fight #heart

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 bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#believe #bragging #conceit #confidence #done

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person. ↗

— Slick Rick

#i #nice #nice person #people #person

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#conceited #considerable #enough #envy #fortune

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#conceit #finest #man #wear

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

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#astronomy #conceit #earth #folly #human-nature