Definition of Conceit

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Conceit

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.

Design; pattern.

To conceive; to imagine.

To form an idea; to think.

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Conceit Quotations

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop

Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm

Conceit Translations

conceit in German is Einbildung, Eingebildetheit

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