19 quotes found
“Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.”
“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepant...”
“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...”
“He who thinks he knows it all knows very little." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio”
“I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.”
“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 l...”
“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
“God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.”
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.”
“How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awareness, language, ideas and their association, reason, trade, play, choice, courage, love and alt...”
“It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.”
“...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.”
“However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of...”
“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they gro...”
“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.”
“The art of making much show with little substance.”
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.”
“There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.”
