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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CONCEIT
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American poet)
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American poet)
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969, American minister)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804, American statesman)
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Some people are so self-occupied, that even when in love, they find a way to be totally engrossed with the passion without being so with the person they love.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799, German physicist, satirist)
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
Whatever accomplishment you boast of in the world, there is someone better than you.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
Philipino Proverb
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972, American President (33rd))
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)
See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 26:7
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
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.
Thomas Traherne (1636-1674, British clergyman, poet, mystic)
Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone sick except the person who has it.
Author Unknown
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.
Author Unknown
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
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