He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers. . . make sure you hands are clean!
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me. ' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited. ' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a designaesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.
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.
It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
I'm too conceited for therapy.
For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.