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None so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Conceit is the most contemptible and one of the most odious qualities in the world. It is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
CHANNING POLLOCK, attributed in The Book of Positive Quotations
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.
GEORGE ELIOT, Amos Barton
- There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
- From the disease of conceit
- Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
- From the disease of conceit
- Give ya delusions of grandeur
- And a evil eye
- Give you the idea that
- You’re too good to die
- Then they bury you from your head to your feet
- From the disease of conceit
BOB DYLAN, "Disease of Conceit"
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