Conceit Quotes - Page 7

• So the dubbed conceit
  Played nursery of cheat
  To clear the I of sleet.

  Allen Tate

  Nursery, Cheat, Clear

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.126, Macmillan

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• There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

  Zane Grey

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want if you just believe and stick together and continue to work at it. In that sense, it gives me the confidence to go into the next project with the belief that we can do it. This was an experiment in whether you can find a film without a singular conceit.

  Sam Pressman

  Believe, Giving, Lesson Learned

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  Awards, People, Guy

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

  Myrtle Reed

  Vanity, Selfishness, Lovable

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.124, tredition

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• Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

  George Eliot

  Vanity, Noses, Minutiae

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Australia, Perfection

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Contemplation, Ends

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Men, Roots

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• Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Self, Arrogance, Age

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• Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

  Gautama Buddha

  Cutting, Found, Delusion

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• Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

  Idries Shah

  Daughter, Independence, Premature

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.109, Octagon Press Ltd

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• For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

  Philip Sidney

  Mind, World, Tongue

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.155, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• 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

  Reality, Thinking, Events

  "ANDREW LO: I Read 21 Books About The Financial Crisis And They Explained Nothing" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Objectivity, Feelings

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
  How vain is that poor creature man;
  How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
  To grate about that thing himself.

  Charles Churchill

  Men, Reason, Poor

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• It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughing, Soul, Fancy

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• every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Generations, Opinion, Superiority

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.7470, Delphi Classics

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• True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Dupes, Flattery

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “Poor Relations: Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of millions of dollars, when innocent people who actually flagged this culture of conceit and culture of rip off should've been fired while the people who were doing it somehow are able to just resign and reap the big reward. It's just an outrage. It's people who have forgotten decent values towards other people.

  John Kasich

  Rip, People, Dollars

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Self, Humanity

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.226, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single conceit movie. The world and the people are very much the way we know them to be, but this sport has evolved.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Sports, Real, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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