“We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.”
William Hazlitt
“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”
Lao Tzu
“Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.”
Hartman Rector Jr.
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
Oscar Wilde
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
John Wooden
“Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.”
Aesop
“Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers”
George Bernard Shaw