I swear I'm all puffed up with conceit when I consider the kind of father I selected for myself.
If in the inflation of his insufferable conceit he dreamed for an instant another thing.
It is a far haughtier conceit to fancy one's self an integral part of God's substance than to believe one's self a worshipping pensioner of God's will.
This conceit of superstition has been developed by a Christian author of considerable reputation into a theory of a natural resurrection.
And what first arose as a poetic conceit or stray thought, and was expressed in glowing metaphors, might by an easy process pass abroad and harden into a prosaic proposition or dogmatic formula.
For the conception to which we have recourse is evidently a mere conceit of imagination, without scientific basis or philosophical confirmation.
What good is there in the baseless conceitand gratuitous disgust of saying, "The next world is in the grave, betwixt the teeth of the worm"?
But this is a mere conceit of possibility; and, so far as the data for forming an opinion are in our hands, it is altogether incredible.
Too bad, though--you certainly need a wife to take the conceit out of you.
To be honest with you--and why should I conceal that conceit which every artist is said secretly to feel in his own production?
I do grace him as much as I may, for I find him marvellous greedy to do anything to recover theconceit of his brutish offence.
It was fashioned, he stated, 'according to Ralegh's excellentconceit of Cynthia, Cynthia and Phoebe being both names of Diana.
The poet declared it unworthy of Sir Walter's higherconceit for the meanness of the style, but agreeable to the truth in circumstance and matter.
Not even its hero's temporary self-abasement could put it out of conceitwith him.
Your conceit of not confessing anything is very inhuman and wicked.
Some folk fair make you lose conceit of your things, but she's the other way.
But, as I have said, this particular afternoon found Stewart Stevenson out of conceit with himself and his work.
I must describe them to you, for I know you are interested in houses,' and so on and so on, and I have lost conceit of my cherished room.
Why should we call the man who makes one pretty conceitrhyme with another pretty conceit an artist, and deny the term to the man whose sentences pair with great laws and forces?
Evolution took that conceit out of us; and now, though we may kill a flea without the smallest remorse, we at all events know that we are killing our cousin.
Your colossal conceitblinds you to the most obvious necessity of the political situation.
Now Mariquita had no conceit and was steeped in charity in big and little things.
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
I served on Rolffe's staff in Bombay for four years, and when a man has been an aide-de-camp he knows what being bullied means; but what I could not endure is that outpouring of conceit mingled with rotten recollections.
He was only endurable when by the excess of his conceit he made himself ridiculous.
It is in the resources of his intense conceit he finds whatever renders him pleasant and agreeable.
I thought I had seen something of conceit and affectation, but that old fellow leaves everything in that line miles behind.
Self-conceit and vanity are very pardonable offences, till, stimulated by flattery, or aggravated by indulgence, they assume the offensive forms of arrogance and insolence.
In this instance the conceit which was the result of my undisciplined imagination made me abandon the path of public studies I had entered upon, and induced me to continue my studies by myself.
As it is, they are probably inflated with conceit at overcoming visionary difficulties.
Happening to pass later on by the open door of the little salon, the following remark was overheard: "My dear, the conceit of these climbing objects is quite dreadful.
Others have fallen upon the like, or perhaps the same conceit under another appellation; deducing its name not from King Erythrus, but Esau or Edom, whose habitation was upon the coasts thereof.
For the tradition being very ancient and probably Egyptian, the Greeks who dispersed the Fable, might summ up the account by their own numeration of years; whereas the conceit might have its original in times of shorter compute.
Which nevertheless is a conceit not to be admitted, and the plain and received figure, is with better reason embraced.
The first was a favourable indulgence and special contrivance of Nature; which was the conceit of Herodotus, who thus delivereth himself.
That Storks are to be found, and will only live in Republikes or free States, is a petty conceit to advance the opinion of popular policies, and from Antipathies in nature, to disparage Monarchical government.
From whence ariseth a conceit that Corn will not grow if the extreams be cut or broken.
I never heerd Master Mark give a cheer out of him going over a fence, that he hadn't a conceit out of the beast under him.
Summer was ill versed in Elizabethan lore, but, had his wit been greater, his conceit would still have protected him.
In very perversity, he began deliberately to flatter their vanity in order to see to what inordinate pitch of conceit their minds would rise.
I say that conceit is just as natural a thing to human minds as a centre is to a circle.
When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.
Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable.
And If you do not find something there that will take all the conceit out of you, it must be because you are very short-sighted, or phenomenally self-complacent.
All the self-conceit and confidence have to be taken out of him first.
There is no fear of self-conceit or of a mistaken estimate of ourselves.
Not knowledge but the superciliousness which is the result of the conceit of knowledge hinders from God, and is one of the strongest fortresses against which the weapons of our warfare have to be employed.
It is easy for a man to plume himself on being good, and strong, and great; but let him look at what he has done, and try that by a high standard, and that will knock the conceitout of him.
Will a man play tricks, will he indulge A silly fond conceit of his fair form And just proportion, fashionable mien, And pretty face, in presence of his God?
God gie us a guidconceit of oorselves,"' said Mrs. Hauksbee piously, returning to her natural speech.
Conceit is what the poor fellow wants,' she said in confidence to Mrs. Mallowe.
It's better manners he ought to be havin', though 'tis fine to see a man like yourself hasn't too much conceit of his clothes.
