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conceited
«Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him»
«Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people?s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.»
«God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Country,
Hate,
Society,
Vanity
| Keywords:
conceited, old country, puerile, senility, sophisticated
«I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them»
«We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.»
«If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comrades, conceited, seasick, self-conceited
«I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Egotism,
Gossip,
Self awareness,
witty
| Keywords:
all, as we say, at all, back, backed up, backing, back out, back to back, behind, behinds, conceited, far, from way back, furthest, get behind, knowing, like, makes, making known, On Our Backs, people, say, Say Any, take back, too, WHAT
«I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
abolished, conceit, conceited, egotism, egotistical, guru, gurus, illness, selfishness, The Guru, The Illness
«A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
conceited, overindulge, overindulges, revolves, revolve around