For God hates utterlyThe bray of bragging tongues.

Sophocles
5,820

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus
4,918

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Aesop
2,498

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey
335

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Bruce Barton
262

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
251

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

John Blake
156

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle
132

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad HaAm
0

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm
0

The thing that was remarkably wonderful about her was that she had no conceit. She was completely modest.

Jon Vickers
0

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Ellen Terry
0