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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. Sidney Lanier

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

James Laughlin

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Ellen Terry

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

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.'

Terry Zwigoff

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Kurt Eichenwald

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.

Louisa May Alcott

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Johnny Unitas

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Bruce Barton

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

Tom Brokaw

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.

Joseph Altuzarra

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.

John C. Maxwell

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Alain Rene Le Sage

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

T. E. Hulme

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Miguel Sapochnik

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.

Louisa May Alcott

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.

Sidney Lanier

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.

Willa Cather

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

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.

William H. Seward

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.

Andrew Lo

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.

Rory MacLean

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.

Steven Erikson

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.

Ezra Taft Benson

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

Mark Waid

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.

Augustus Hare

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Harvey Mackay