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.
Related Definitions:
Active,
Affected,
An,
Apprehension,
As,
Conceit,
Conceive,
Conceived,
Conceiving,
Conception,
Design,
Device,
Expression,
Extravagant,
Faculty,
Fanciful,
Fancy,
Form,
Formed,
Idea,
Ideas,
Image,
Imagination,
Imagine,
Imagined,
In,
Is,
Lively,
Man,
Mental,
Mind,
Notion,
Odd,
Of,
One,
Or,
Overweening,
Pattern,
Quant,
Quick,
Quickness,
Quip,
Self,
That,
The,
Think,
Thought,
To,
Turn,
Unnatural,
Vanity,
Which,
Whim,
Witty
Conceit Quotations
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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
Conceit Translations
conceit in German is Einbildung, Eingebildetheit
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
