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I have really no idea, nor do you, what else this person has divulged, i think somebody so cowardly and so conceited would probably go a step further. – Kellyanne Conway	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s either: you’re conceited, or insecure, as opposed to just loving yourself. my mother’s a… beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes. – Zoe Kravitz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
'' You could not talk to him about anything except his own work, you know ? He was so conceited, and demanding ! – Nobel Prize-winning Russian	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! – Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm	added by anonymous 10 years ago
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of. – Mike McLaren	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I have really no idea, nor do you, what else this person has divulged, i think somebody so cowardly and so conceited would probably go a step further.

– Kellyanne Conway

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s either: you’re conceited, or insecure, as opposed to just loving yourself. my mother’s a… beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

– Zoe Kravitz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

'' You could not talk to him about anything except his own work, you know ? He was so conceited, and demanding !

– Nobel Prize-winning Russian

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

– Iris Murdoch

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.

– Max Beerbohm

added by anonymous
10 years ago

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

– Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of.

– Mike McLaren

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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