Booth Tarkington Quotes

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We humans find it difficult to resist infection by hubris..

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

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.

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I was a cocky kid.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.