#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

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#conceited #course #go #mistakes #next

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conceit #education #frivolity #inborn

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

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#bragging #conceit #gossip #haughty #pride

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. ↗

— Aesop

#greater #mind #smaller

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

— Kellie Elmore

#appearances #arrogance #arrogant #beautiful #beauty