Conceit is incompatible with understanding

Conceit is incompatible with understanding

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

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

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever read more

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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,

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can
render a reason.

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.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Conceit is God's gift to little men

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.