Zitat des Tages über Einbildung / Conceit:
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.'
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.
To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
