“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
John Wooden
“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired”
Mark Twain
“Man compared to nature is a woman.”
George Otero
“Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers”
George Bernard Shaw
“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”
Alain Rene Lesage
“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).”
Bible
“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up”
John Ruskin