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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.8 · 42 votes

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Conceit is a queer disease - it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.

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Conceit is God's gift to little men.

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Harry S. Truman

PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

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Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

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WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

4.8 · 36 votes · 138 reads

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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.8 · 50 votes

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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

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

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WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

4.2 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

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CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

4.6 · 32 votes

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

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WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

3.5 · 45 votes

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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

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ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
WriterIrish1899 · 19th century
3.3 · 25 votes · 86 reads
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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
Francis Bacon
PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century
4.2 · 31 votes · 132 reads
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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.
Anonymous
5.0 · 63 votes · 89 reads
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.3 · 11 votes · 15 reads
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.2 · 27 votes · 138 reads
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century
4.0 · 21 votes · 99 reads
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