(72 quotes found)
“[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.”
Robert Moses
“Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.”
Francis Bacon
“Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.”
Ellen Terry
“To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The body is wild, and the mind is foolish. Practicing egotism, selfishness and conceit, your life is passing away.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.”
William Shakespeare
“I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace.”
“Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.”
“Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
Louisa May Alcott
