conceit

With all his conceit and extravagance he is not so rich, I fancy, as he affects to be.

She stood to her resolve, and with a foolish conceit of her own skill rushed on her fate.

It was merely a question of "good form, " the conceit of a superior breeding, the duty not to give oneself away.

Or is all this an empty conceit, the vaporing of the tired and overwrought brain of a life long liberal?

Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

As a simple conceit, let me present a number of versions of a very simple utility that lists files and numbers them.

Anyone he had ever injured by his conceit might now feel revenged to see how ravaged he looked.

Error is often the precursor of what is correct, but conceit is the prelude to a fall.

Now, the test of any idea -- I said it was a literary conceit -- is what does it get us?

but Miss Hawkins, it might be fairly supposed from her easy conceit, had been the best of her own set.

She did not find that the emptiness and conceit of the one put her at all out of charity with the modesty and worth of the other.

He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit , as though it were only his due.

Britain's self- image as a so- called pocket- superpower has long been a flimsy conceit ; now it will have still smaller pockets .

I do not, of course, speak of the conceit that displays itself in an elevated nose and a falsetto voice.

This conceit has been used by other authors. It appears every few pages here like a nervous tic.

Error is often the prcursor_f what is correct, ut conceit is the preludeh to a fall.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

But that day, it occurred to me, what if that grammar is nothing more than a self-serving conceit?

Therefore, China should have passion for attending constructing Asian regionalism and its own strategic conceit.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

The walk is really little more than a cultural touchstone and a literary conceit, the event around which McCann has assembled his cast.

The idea of the wind singing is a romantic conceit.

The absence of presumptuous self-conceit in Tito made him feel all the more defenceless under prospective obloquy.

Conceit, in many cases, describes a state of serious emotional insecurity.

In my own conceit, some of my novels are the stories of people's live, and the scenery of people's soul.

But for the moment Wendy was shocked. "You conceit [braggart], " she exclaimed, with frightful sarcasm; "of course I did nothing! "

Besides, conceit and a sense of superiority have either blinded us to our own weaknesses or made us ignore them.

The conceit seems too preposterous to be thought of as a serious opinion.

Together with other factors, this engendered conceit among a number of army comrades, some of whom became arrogant and overbearing.

The story though is very simple, but has taught me a very profound truth that conceit makes one lag behind, modestly makes progress.

Henry's modesty has seemed to hostile critics a form of conceit on a gigantic scale.

It only proves that you haven't found the best if you are out of conceit and mind.

I've a very good mind to shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit. '

Conceit tells you that the problem is with your spouse, or with your parents, or with somebody else.

means an air of haughtiness or conceit.

This all sounds conceited and I guess it is - but a surgeon needs conceit.

Among some cadres bureaucratism assumes the form of conceit and complacency.

The title of my post, "The Fatal Conceit" , is taken from the title of a book published in 1988 by Friedrich Hayek.

In late 2009 Mr. Zardari denounced the Af-Pak conceit, saying Pakistan could not be compared with its wild neighbor.

Modesty helps one to go forward, conceit makes one lag behind. ? Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

Conceit is the enemy of progress.

He had conceit'd a great regard for me, and was very unwilling that I should leave the house while he remain'd in it.

The core conceit: Prosperity is complex; achieving it relies on a confluence of factors that build on each other in a virtuous circle.

Because implying that their parents can afford expensive dentistry elevates the girls' social position -- even if the conceit is phoney.

His downfall was caused by his own conceit.

Conceit, pride, arrogance, or perhaps you could think of some other downfalls.

It might also be alleged that subjective idealism tended to promote self-conceit.

His oily, insinuating tones, his greasy smile, and his monstrous self-conceit grated on my nerves.

But it is also a conceit, and this conceit makes it difficult for Chinese ideas and institutions to become global in a diverse world.

The conceit and the language skew a little older, so this is a nifty book to read with your kids.

Facing to this common workwoman , he felt himself crude and conceit.

gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion- H. T. Moore; nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.

Confidence is not conceit, confidence is not pride, confidence is not narcissism.

Landing on a small island in the middle of the river means conceit, pride or haughtiness.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet.

"The Castle in the Forest" is a gleeful hodgepodge of ideas, held together by this satanic conceit.

The conceit of the man -- comparing his own work with Picasso's!

Her arrogance, conceit, impractical fantasy for great love and her indiscreet attitude towards love caused her own tragedy.

The reason why the number of tourists to Korea is declining year by year is that the nation is full of conceit but lack of distinct culture.

He is now out of all conceit with His former self.

If the firm's reputation for conceit outlives Mr Raymond, it will hurt efforts to court countries with energy resources.

Here's a conceit so surreal it makes Waiting for Godot read like a cereal packet.

For four decades the basic conceit has remained unchanged: to get visitors to experience science hands-on.

Modesty helps one to go forward [make progress]; conceit makes one lag behind.

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

These people have put me out of conceit with the tales.

To think that this is a struggling-nation problem only is pure conceit.

Affecting an attitude of disdain or conceit ; haughty and supercilious.

He is carved in genius clarion after the forest, where people conceit and enjoy their beer surrounded by lashed green vegetation.

His poems are full of the application of wit, conceit and intellect.

lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Gameloft's games may not be the originals, but they have the original's conceit.

Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit.

Dispel the conceit of knowledge, which proceeds from ignorance.

The legal conceit that companies are natural persons is vital to capitalism.

I open one is: " modesty helps one to make progress, conceit makes one lag behind. "

In Heidegger's opinion, Being is covered by metaphysics, which shows human's conceit to dominate the world.

No dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible in science.

despise his hypocrisy, meanness, conceit, etc.

They interpret this body language as aloofness or conceit and stay away, making the shy person feel even more insecure.

Complacency, conceit, and credulity are three big submerged reefs in one's life.

Call it conceit---call it self-confidence; whatever it was, I had it.

All this is a Western conceit, says Mr Jacques.

It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

Conceit, especially the conceit of high-ranking cadres, will unavoidably harm Party unity and work.

Modesty makes one progress whereas conceit makes on lay behind.

Modesty helps one to make progress; conceit makes one behind.

When it comes to this, nothing is left but self-conceit.

Self - mockery may sometimes mask great conceit.

During this stage, a kind of conceit appeared within the Party.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop himes up. ---John Ruskin.

The conceit: Presenters from all walks of geekdom show 20 slides in 20-second intervals, on whatever super-quirky subject they please.

John Durbeyfield had more conceit than energy or health, and this supposition was pleasant to him.

"The initial conceit was not 'do a Spielbergian movie, '" Abrams says.

He is wise about his own conceit.

There is a Chinese saying: 'Modesty helps one go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.

take the conceit out of sb.

And in human life and human culture that is not a playful, fanciful conceit; it is a real veritable fact. --Malcolm J. McLeod.

Conceit will always hinder you from mourning.

Everything he says is tinctured with conceit.

Such men, Socrates warns, will be "filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, and they will be a burden to their fellows. "

Now, why is that? Stop for a moment and ask, why that conceit?

Her conceit about her beauty angered many people.

He was a monster of conceit.

A capricious or fantastic idea; a conceit.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

neither are they laid by God, but by our own conceit.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Modesty helps one to go forward, where-as conceit makes one lag behind. This is a truth we must always bear in mind.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

John Durbeyfield had more conceit than energy or health.

His talk savors, of self-conceit.

I am out of conceit with the urban life.

conceit makes one lag behind.

The Fatal Conceit: A Pay "Czar"

His one conceit is a corporate jet, but that is second-hand and named "The Indefensible" .

His conceit is hateful.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

To fill with pride or conceit.

Conceit is self-given.

Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.

To build a brain, you need to throw away the conceit of separate hardware and software because the brain doesn't work that way.

This is somewhat "fatal conceit. "

He's got too many experience so he can tell people filled with conceit in any forms right away.

Conceit may puff a Man up, But it can never prop him up.

He should announce that, as US president, he will absent himself from the cosy conceit of the G7 and G8.

He is full of conceit.

Is this not the fatal conceit magnified?

a fathomless conceit that prevents him from working hard enough to perfect his real but unformed talents

Just a victim of your own conceit

all that conceit . . . i bet your eating your heart out

Cling students to obey the old concept of the teacher, rather than looking for a teacher from their own lack of conceit;

Conceit and technical study on manufacturing integral motor commutator by one cold forging procedure

Another Kind of Conceit: A Cultural Perspective on Government Intervention

Theoretical Conceit about Human-centered Teaching Activity

Your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others

But it's a mistake and a conceit to suppose

Conceit, Nothingness and Reason--The Nationalism in the Context of Modern China

Manifestation and Cause of Conceit and the Countermeasure of Solution

An eccentric addition to the lobby is a life-size wooden horse, a 9th century conceit. (Mimi Sheraton)

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich Hayek

John Donne-The Great Writer of Conceit

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. ----Aesop

As a person of some conceit I prefer the monologue to the dialogue;

Conceit on Middle and Long Term Science Development of Seaports