Conceit

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making…

— Conceit

Be not wise in your own conceits.

— Conceit

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

— Conceit

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.

— Conceit

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.

— Conceit

We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not: he is like us; he is thinking of himself.

— Conceit

It was Mr. Greenaway's conceit, and a terrifically promising one, that in this "Tempest" Mr. Gielgud's Prospero should also be a mirror image of Shakespeare at the end of his career, with a further association to the actor himself, nearing the end of his career as an actor.

— Conceit

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

— Conceit

For what are they all in their high conceit,When man in the bush with God may meet?

— Conceit

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

— Conceit

In men this blunder still you find,All think their little set mankind.

— Conceit

Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can tender a reason.

— Conceit

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

— Conceit

I am not in the roll of common men.

— Conceit

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,They are but beggars that can count their worth.

— Conceit

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own,They are found shallow.

— Conceit

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

— Conceit