Be not righteous overmuch. [ Bible ]
Be not wise in your own conceits. [ Bible ]
A fool is wise in his own conceit. [ Proverb ]
I am not in the roll of common men. [ William Shakespeare ]
Expression is the dress of thought, and
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed,
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed. [ Pope ]
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. [ William Shakespeare ]
The world knows only two, that's Home and I. [ Ben Jonson ]
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. [ Pope ]
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. [ Socrates ]
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. [ Le Sage ]
It is self-conceit that makes opinion obstinate. [ Proverb ]
Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. [ Ruskin ]
The art of making much show with little substance.. [ Macaulay ]
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. [ Swift ]
Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. [ Henry Home ]
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]
The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. [ Epictetus ]
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. [ Emmons ]
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]
He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence. [ Lavater ]
The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]
Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]
Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. [ Fuller ]
Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]
Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. [ Bacon ]
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]