Jeremy Collier Quotes

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.