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

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

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

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

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Conceit is God's gift to little men

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

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

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

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

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is read more

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

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

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

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.

He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.