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I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860)In context
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return …
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Love
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts⁠—not to hurt others.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book I: Miss Brooke, Chapter VIIn context
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIn context
- Character
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981The Business of Life (1949)
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
Bobby Fischer1943–2008In Chess Digest Magazine, Vol. 4 (1971), p. 263
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4
- Character
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Charles Thomson, 11 July 1765
- Work
Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790The Autobiography (1818), Part I, p. 2
The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter XIn context
- Comedy
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 29 July 1959
- Virtue
Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Character
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)
- Character
No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)