The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favourable opinion they have formed of themselves.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

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

What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a persons mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.