A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - (Hamilton, Alexander - Conceit)

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. - (Fosdick, Harry Emerson - Conceit)

Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. - (Forman, Max L. - Conceit)

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. - (Boorstin, Daniel J. - Conceit)

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest. - (Shakespeare, William - Conceit)

Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it. - (Unknown, Source - Conceit)

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. - (Unitas, Johnny - Conceit)

Conceit is God's gift to little men. - (Truman, Harry S. - Conceit)

Conceit is incompatible with understanding. - (Tolstoy, Count Leo - Conceit)

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. - (Shakespeare, William - Conceit)

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. - (Traherne, Thomas - Conceit)

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - (Lichtenberg, Georg C. - Conceit)

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. - (Eliot, George - Conceit)

If you done it, it ain't bragging. - (Whitman, Walt - Conceit)

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. - (Eliot, George - Conceit)