Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

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...

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths— another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

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 Cookiepants Hypotenuse.' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a persons mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favourable opinion they have formed of themselves.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.