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Alexandre Dumas
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
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Anthony Powell
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
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Ben Jonson
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
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Bible
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Bible
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
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Bible
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
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Ellen Terry
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
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George Eliot
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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Hannah More
In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.
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John Ruskin
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin,
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Johnny Unitas
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
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Max L. Forman
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
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Oscar Wilde
To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Sophocles
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
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Thomas Traherne
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
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