Words matter. These are the best Conceit Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Barton, Henry Moore, David Levering Lewis, Ezra Taft Benson, Alissa Quart, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Conceit is God’s gift to little men.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that ‘the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history’ – a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
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.
Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.
There is no such thing as pure art. It’s a bourgeois conceit.
It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.
I think it’d be pretty unrealistic to think we’re the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It’s kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. 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.
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.
We’ve all seen comedians look like they’re reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit of standup is that it is effortless, which makes the prospect of generating new comedy a tricky one: you are trying to be funny without looking like you are trying to be funny.
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.’
The quality I appreciated most about Grafton was her loyalty. She stuck with ‘Kinsey Millhone’ and the alphabet series conceit for her entire career but did not allow herself to stagnate as a writer. Kinsey’s first-person narrative gradually made room for other, third-person perspectives.
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don’t mean a conceit of the producer.
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.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
I think there’s this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, ‘I want to unlock the single secret to ‘Lost.’ There isn’t any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for ‘Lost,’ nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don’t buy into that as a 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.
Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
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.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit – that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don’t make up more than half of our country.
The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we’re going to die, I suppose.
Apple excels at taking existing concepts – computers, MP3 players, conceit – and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.
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.
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.
I’m a writer. I don’t begin with some conceit in mind. I’m just trying to tell a good story.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
