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  • 'Reading between the lines, I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate,' said Sirius.†   (source)
  • This apparent conceit, Mortati knew, had nothing to do with self-centered ambition.†   (source)
  • Now he understood how conceited a delusion this was.†   (source)
  • The veil may have hidden the queen's conceit, but the smug grins on her two attendants could not be mistaken.†   (source)
  • THE PEOPLE [OF NEW YORK]-WHY THE PEOPLE ARE MAGNIFICENT; IN THEIR CARRIAGES, WHICH ARE NUMEROUS, IN THEIR HOUSE FURNITURE, WHICH IS FINE, IN THEIR PRIDE AND CONCEIT, WHICH ARE INIMITABLE, IN THEIR PROFANENESS, WHICH IS INTOLERABLE, IN THE WANT OF PRINCIPLE, WHICH IS PREVALENT, AND IN THEIR TORYISM, WHICH IS INSUFFERABLE.†   (source)
  • Whatever Zaphod's qualities of mind might include—dash, bravado, conceit— he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture.†   (source)
  • Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!†   (source)
  • They're dismissed as conceited and shallow.†   (source)
  • What conceit!†   (source)
  • I liked that conceit.†   (source)
  • Even he was constrained in his financial demands by the conceit that one good lineman was no different from any other.†   (source)
  • It would seem conceited to look back.†   (source)
  • The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited.†   (source)
  • He was a good man, and there was no conceit in him.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza could never believe that so significant a name for them both was indeed a historical coincidence and not another conceit born of Florentino Ariza's chronic romanticism.†   (source)
  • We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.†   (source)
  • He was young and good-looking, and I could see right away he was conceited.†   (source)
  • His good looks and popularity had made him so inordinately conceited that they blinded him to that possibility.†   (source)
  • Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots.†   (source)
  • Birger is a conceited fool.†   (source)
  • Conceited, Buttercup thought.†   (source)
  • Captain Mason, with hand extended, is looking at Private Smith, but Private Smith is looking at the camera, in his expression Mrs. Johnson saw, or imagined she saw, not gratitude but arrogance, and, in place of pride, immense conceit, it wasn't incredible that he had met a man on a bridge and thrown him off it.†   (source)
  • His face goes blank, and he looks down at Helene without conceit or triumph.†   (source)
  • Rowsby Woof was reckoned to be a tremendous ratter and his master had boasted about this skill of his so often and showed him off so much that he had become revoltingly conceited.†   (source)
  • I haven't the colossal conceit to suppose that I can reform the world—not even push it much faster toward the destination of good to which it is rolling.†   (source)
  • I was never remiss in poisoning Alejandra's mind against the conceits of the sorts of suitors available to her and we have both long been willing to entertain the notion of rescue arriving in whatever garb it chose.†   (source)
  • And why wouldn't he want to talk to Tiffany, who had everything I would never have: beauty, money, confidence (okay, conceit)?†   (source)
  • Ostensibly idle at the time, goaded by fellow Soviet directors to discard his theories and conceits.†   (source)
  • In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I'm conceited and maybe I'm not, but there still isn't anybody that can ride him like I can ride him," he said.†   (source)
  • The pride, the conceit of these doormat women amazed him.†   (source)
  • It's not out of arrogance or conceit; it's out of respect.†   (source)
  • I supposed in my colossal conceit and self-deception that my own grief for my dead brother was the only true emotion.†   (source)
  • These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.†   (source)
  • Aarfy chuckled again with conceited amusement.†   (source)
  • Not conceited.†   (source)
  • The women were pleased at having thrown off the ballast of the soulthat laughable conceit, that illusion of uniquenessto become one like the next.†   (source)
  • What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much an act of conceit as it was an act of heroism.†   (source)
  • Patriotism, I now believe, isn't some sentimental, old conceit.†   (source)
  • In effect, Brush (remembered later as "a conceited New York Tory") was authorized to take whatever he wanted in return for worthless certificates.†   (source)
  • John Rimbauer, ruggedly handsome, is a pragmatic man (which possibly accounts for his success in the oil business), extremely sure of himself and even given to moments of conceit.†   (source)
  • The staff thought Rumfoord was a hateful old man, conceited and cruel.†   (source)
  • That's the way he's been since he was five years old-the most conceited brat you ever saw-and I knew he'd grow up to be the most selfish creature on God's earth.†   (source)
  • All in all, Lee considered herself a reasonable, low-key person with no more than her fair share of conceit.†   (source)
  • Memory is Master of Death, the chink In his armour of conceit.†   (source)
  • I didn't know then if I had witnessed the gravest humility or conceit.†   (source)
  • It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you'll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through.†   (source)
  • Then, later on I heard, 'Conceited, fantasizing, delusions of grandeur,' stuff like that.†   (source)
  • Last month, rolling up the supposedly dusty rug in the little boys' room, he had paused to ask, "Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God?†   (source)
  • And men often have enough followers to sacrifice the interests of society to their vanity, conceit, and obstinacy.†   (source)
  • Is that being conceited?†   (source)
  • Mike was as conceited a machine as you are ever likely to meet.†   (source)
  • This is to our shame when we should be sharpening and perfecting our procedures … it is only a mixture of ignorance and conceit that leads one section of the country to assume that no human beings on earth but themselves can understand the conditions under which they live.†   (source)
  • God, if she only knew what manner of sugarplums danced in my head when she gave tongue to such delicious conceits.†   (source)
  • It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves--smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested.†   (source)
  • The blind love of a mother for her child, the stupid, blind pride of a conceited father for his only son, the blind, wild desire of a young, vain woman for jewelry and admiring glances from men, all of these urges, all of this childish stuff, all of these simple, foolish, but immensely strong, strongly living, strongly prevailing urges and desires were now no childish notions for Siddhartha any more, he saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving infinitely much for their…†   (source)
  • The same affected detachment, the same fusty conceits; the same horror of drafts; courteous according to a formula miles removed from Leamas' experience.†   (source)
  • They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.†   (source)
  • And this was the story of all those who failed to wait on the counsel of the Lord; who made themselves wise in their own conceit and ran before they had the tidings ready.†   (source)
  • On one occasion, which revealed the depth of warm devotion which lay beneath that rough conceit, Benton was entertaining a French prince and other distinguished guests when his wife, not fully dressed, rambled into the room and stared adoringly at her husband.†   (source)
  • That was the conceited thing girls and women would try.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL (Breathing hard; straight at MORE) And so provide a noble motive for his frivolous self-conceit!†   (source)
  • There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others. The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.   (source)
  • I know you think me a shocking, conceited, frivolous girl; but then, you know, I don't attribute it ALL to my personal attractions: I give some praise to the hairdresser, and some to my exquisitely lovely dress...   (source)
  • They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about.   (source)
  • You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it.   (source)
  • There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.   (source)
    conceited = excessively proud
  • I wouldn't mind him if he wasn't so conceited and...   (source)
  • I saw myself—a monument to my own conceit.†   (source)
  • What a conceited little troll, with his natty vest and bulbous nose!†   (source)
  • "But Cecilia is not a conceited fool, and she's furious."†   (source)
  • There was no trace of conceit in the camerlegno's voice, only gratitude.†   (source)
  • For one can assume too much sometimes, in fits of conceited self-blame.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I'm conceited and shallow, too, sometimes.†   (source)
  • Such conceit," the Hassassin sneered, watching Langdon's eyes.†   (source)
  • I'm just so sick of pedants and conceited little tearer-downers I could scream.†   (source)
  • My good Horse, you've lost nothing but your self-conceit.†   (source)
  • Oh, what a dumb, dumb idiot I've been and unappreciative and irresponsible and conceited!†   (source)
  • He's conceited, but he's very generous in some things.†   (source)
  • She shrugged, "That's the conceit I'm talking about-the idea that it matters who's right or wrong.†   (source)
  • "Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.†   (source)
  • As I walked I remembered my father's face and his thin lips, my brother's round conceited eyes.†   (source)
  • Man was made for action…… I am quite out of conceit with calm.†   (source)
  • My conceit was that I thought I knew my brother.†   (source)
  • God, Henry, but you're conceited!" said Philip.†   (source)
  • A little thing like that, and she thought he was conceited!†   (source)
  • "Yes, very conceited," the Sicilian said.†   (source)
  • A magnificent body and a foolish conceited face.†   (source)
  • I thought you were conceited enough, but I see that you have no idea of what you've got in you.†   (source)
  • Your plan succeeded because I was young, conceited, foolish, trusting.†   (source)
  • It's disgusting, the way you let that conceited punk order you about.†   (source)
  • Rely on their intelligence and conceit, on their suspicion of one another—that's what we must do.†   (source)
  • He's the most conceited Boy Scout in the whole troop; and's bowlegged.†   (source)
  • French women are almost as ignorant but not nearly as conceited and often are teachable.†   (source)
  • For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.†   (source)
  • "It's rather complicated," he said, "and I don't want you to fall into the tiresome error of being conceited about your complexes—you'd bore us for the rest of our lives with that, so we'll keep away from it.†   (source)
  • I'm not really as conceited as many people think; I know my various faults and shortcomings better than anyone else, but there's one difference: I also know that I want to change, will change and already have changed greatly!†   (source)
  • Suddenly, she was right there before me, that busy, priggish, conceited little girl, and she was not dead either, for when people tittered appreciatively at "evanesce" my feeble heart—ridiculous vanity!†   (source)
  • Rather, in the eighteenth-century use of the word, he was berating himself for being overly proud, conceited.†   (source)
  • But when I saw her for the first time I realized there could be no such conceit for us, no easy persuasion.†   (source)
  • And I like his conceit.†   (source)
  • I can only hope this does not match my future husband's ego or conceit, for if so, I am in for a formidable challenge in the years that lie ahead!†   (source)
  • You conceited jerk.†   (source)
  • Who would protect a warm-hearted, simple-minded gnome like Orr from rowdies and cliques and from expert athletes like Appleby who had flies in their eyes and would walk right over him with swaggering conceit and self-assurance every chance they got?†   (source)
  • New Yorkers, however, were another matter, as he reported to his adored Lucy : The people—why the people are magnificent : in their carriages, which are numerous, in their house furniture, which is fine, in their pride and conceit, which are inimitable, in their profaneness, which is intolerable, in the want of principle, which is prevalent, in their Toryism, which is insufferable.†   (source)
  • It lay in state in Old Dome with face covered, and was speech-making I didn't listen to—Mike didn't miss a word; his most human quality was his conceit.†   (source)
  • Their faces changed, and all the meanness, conceit, cruelty, and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror.†   (source)
  • There was something about Miles that made her think he ate off dirty dishes but she began to get used to him, to like him a lot—he was kinetic and unre-flective, essentially artless, blank to the schemes of conceit that ruin many a budding love.†   (source)
  • Oh! that I could wear out of my mind every mean and base affectation, conquer my natural pride and conceit.†   (source)
  • That's the kind of God you people talk about — a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed.†   (source)
  • He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Privately, Jones referred to Adams as a "wicked and conceited upstart," and expressed the wish that "Mr.†   (source)
  • There was this one boy at Elkton Hills, named James Castle, that wouldn't take back something he said about this very conceited boy, Phil Stabile.†   (source)
  • James Castle called him a very conceited guy, and one of Stabile's lousy friends went and squealed on him to Stabile.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was conceited because he was a full colonel with a combat command at the age of only thirty-six; and Colonel Cathcart was dejected because although he was already thirty-six he was still only a full colonel.†   (source)
  • Good treatment makes me think I am admired, beloved…… So I dismiss my guard and grow weak, silly, vain, conceited, ostentatious.†   (source)
  • Another frequent visitor, David Hartley, member of Parliament, old friend of Franklin's and an emissary from Lord North, struck Adams as a conceited dandy and almost certainly a spy.†   (source)
  • She told Roberta he was too conceited—and the reason she thought he was conceited was because he happened to mention to her that he was captain of the debating team.†   (source)
  • Oh, I know that you think you're fighting for some sort of principle —but actually it's only a matter of your incredible conceit.†   (source)
  • Now I'll guess what you're thinking: go ahead, say that it's evil, that I'm selfish, conceited, heartless, cruel.†   (source)
  • Robert Treat Paine was another lawyer and Harvard graduate, whom Adams thought conceited but who, like Wibird and Sewall, had a quick wit, which for Adams was usually enough to justify nearly any failing.†   (source)
  • He's a conceited sonuvabitch.†   (source)
  • You're unbearably conceited," was one of the two sentences she heard throughout her childhood, even though she never spoke of her own ability.†   (source)
  • He was too conceited.†   (source)
  • A puffy, vain, conceited conversation never fails to bring a man into contempt, although his natural endowments be ever so great, and his application and industry ever so intense…… [And] I must own myself to have been, to a very heinous degree, guilty in this respect.†   (source)
  • These two, apparently, are willing to stake the lives of their fellow men on their own conceited notions about their powers of judgment, against the overwhelming majority opinion of recognized experts.†   (source)
  • But I don't think I should be too conceited about it-there's not much competition left in the world, there's no place to invest one's money, if one happens to get rich quickly, and here's d'Anconia Copper, the oldest company on earth, the one that's been the safest bet for centuries.†   (source)
  • He has conceit without judgment.†   (source)
  • Are they awfully conceited?†   (source)
  • What conceit!†   (source)
  • And Virgie handled everything with her finger stuck out; she was conceited over a musician's cyst that appeared on her fourth finger.†   (source)
  • My conceits will never serve to wake the dead.†   (source)
  • Here were no stratagems or conceits, nothing centrifugal, nothing wild, nothing without the rich harmony that seemed to be the world itself as seen in heavenly recollection.†   (source)
  • 'was how Dante drew attention to the humility of the miniaturists, who tried in the simplest, densest strokes to convey the essence of what they saw, and were not interested in discursive interpolations, conceits, or dazzling excursions that proved them to their fellowsalthough they had to do some of this simply to arouse their patrons.†   (source)
  • Devoid of inspiration, I found that nothing would come, and although I sat there for half an hour while my mind fiddled with half-jelled ideas and nebulous conceits, I refused to let myself panic at my stagnation; after all, I reasoned, I had barely settled into these strange surroundings.†   (source)
  • It will attract attention—but only to the immense audacity of Mr. Roark's conceit.†   (source)
  • He was a youth not out of his teens, with gold teeth and a jesting conceited mouth.†   (source)
  • For a conceited, kindless carl, commend me to yon mannie.†   (source)
  • Conceit and self-confidence are the characteristics that we must look for.†   (source)
  • For his poses and swelled head and meanness and childishness and conceit.†   (source)
  • Oh, darling, I'm awfully glad you're not conceited.†   (source)
  • Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.†   (source)
  • For some vague matter of personal vanity, for some empty conceit.†   (source)
  • I was conceited, proud, overbearing - a bad priest.†   (source)
  • The sort of healthy conceit that he had when he returned from America early in the spring was gone.†   (source)
  • He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.†   (source)
  • But he's so conceited he doesn't realize this at all!†   (source)
  • I'd say it was conceited of you, if it weren't so childish.†   (source)
  • In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.†   (source)
  • If you are comparing him with yourself, you conceited thing, why— He's not like you, thank God!†   (source)
  • All too fast for mere fondness I would think, if I were conceited.†   (source)
  • You are coarse and conceited and I think this conversation has gone far enough.†   (source)
  • Well, don't fly off the handle so, because I didn't lie and make you feel conceited.†   (source)
  • If I'm pale it's your fault and not because I've missed you, you conceited thing.†   (source)
  • Or no-remember it, and if you think at any time that I am growing conceited-it is not likely, but it might arise.†   (source)
  • And Mitch didn't come back with roses 'cause I know where he is – Blanche: Oh Stanley: There isn't a goddam thing but imagination Blanche: Oh Stanley: lies, conceit, and tricks Blanche: Oh!†   (source)
  • When the lecturer ascended the platform and began his address, many of his hearers, who had expected a sort of prophet, were disappointed by his rather dapper appearance and conceited air.†   (source)
  • No, that was too conceited for belief.†   (source)
  • For she had a number of things against me about which she was probably in the right, my dandy gab and conceit and my care about clothes.†   (source)
  • A fine blow to my conceit.†   (source)
  • Endowed with a pure understanding, restraining the self with firmness, turning away from sound and other objects, and abandoning love and hatred; dwelling in solitude, eating but little, controlling the speech, body, and mind, ever engaged in meditation and concentration, and cultivating freedom from passion; forsaking conceit and power, pride and lust, wrath and possessions, tranquil in heart, and free from ego—he becomes worthy of becoming one with the imperishable.†   (source)
  • Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language.†   (source)
  • Muck their egotism and their selfishness and their selfishness and their egotism and their conceit and their treachery.†   (source)
  • Such were the extremes of emotion that Mr. Ramsay excited in his children's breasts by his mere presence; standing, as now, lean as a knife, narrow as the blade of one, grinning sarcastically, not only with the pleasure of disillusioning his son and casting ridicule upon his wife, who was ten thousand times better in every way than he was (James thought), but also with some secret conceit at his own accuracy of judgement.†   (source)
  • Then his native masculine conceit assured him that it was one of the younger teachers who had long had a crush on him and had finally screwed up enough courage to make a passionate overture.†   (source)
  • We'll have quite a lot of jokes with him," laughs Miller— That is our sole ambition: to knock the conceit out of a postman.†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm not conceited or anything, but after all, I read eight hours a day for almost a year and I learned things.†   (source)
  • Kleber, Lucasz, and Hans had done a fine job of their share in the defense of Madrid with the International Brigades and then the old bald, spectacled, conceited, stupid-as-an-owl, unintelligent-inconversation, brave— and-as-dumb-as-a-bull, propaganda-build-up defender of Madrid, Miaja, had been so jealous of the publicity Kleber received that he had forced the Russians to relieve Kieber of his command and send him to Valencia.†   (source)
  • I thought of the youthful almost hysterical excitement and conceit with which I had gone into this marriage, imagining I would bring happiness to Maxim, who had known much greater happiness before.†   (source)
  • " "Some conceit you've got, Simon.†   (source)
  • This conceited air of nobility, the great man ogling the distinguished company, and beneath the manly exterior what a world of charming sentimentality!†   (source)
  • In this I coincided with Inspector Miller, who was in charge of the case-a man altogether different from our friend Japp, conceited, ill-mannered and quite insufferable.†   (source)
  • I'd have married you even if you were conceited but it's very restful to have a husband who's not conceited.†   (source)
  • This despair of his not only unmasked the conceited lecturer and dismissed with its irony the matter at hand, the expectant attitude of the public, the somewhat presumptuous title under which the lecture was announced—no, the Steppenwolf's look pierced our whole epoch, its whole overwrought activity, the whole surge and strife, the whole vanity, the whole superficial play of a shallow, opinionated intellectuality.†   (source)
  • I guess we're both conceited," I said.†   (source)
  • He thought: If she were completely the spinster, the frustrated social worker, as people think of those women, the kind who would scorn sex in the haughty conceit of her own virtue, that would still be recognition, if only in hostility.†   (source)
  • I appreciate compliments, Mr. Wynand, but I'm not conceited enough to think that we must talk about my wife.†   (source)
  • Why, no. I'm too conceited.†   (source)
  • You're not conceited enough.†   (source)
  • "Add conceit to dishonor," he said.†   (source)
  • He hadn't changed, nothing had changed, and she had been a fool, a stupid, conceited, silly fool, thinking he loved her.†   (source)
  • Oh, men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them…… I must never let him dream what straits we're in, not till I've got him.†   (source)
  • Just because you're conceited at being the 'great blockader' doesn't give you the right to insult women.†   (source)
  • "Oh, for God's sake, hush!" interrupted Scarlett, annoyed as usual when he made her look like a conceited fool, and not caring to have Ashley and his honor become the subject of further conversation.†   (source)
  • Conceited old fool, she thought.†   (source)
  • VII The stroke of scorn relieved his mind, and the next morning he laughed at his self-conceit.†   (source)
  • John Durbeyfield had more conceit than energy or health, and this supposition was pleasant to him.†   (source)
  • It makes women conceited to meddle in business.†   (source)
  • Presently, all swollen with conceit, I went up-stairs and gave my prisoner his liberty.†   (source)
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