The natural and to-be-looked-for conceit of youth may have been the barrier which prevented their yielding.

His conceit is the only thing against him, and she may not mind that.

It implies, first of all, a superb conceit to think anybody wishes one to tell all about anything, but conceit is a natural attributea twin brother of its sister, vanityand everybody has it to a greater or less degree.

* Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Self-conceit is a great source of happiness, a buffer that softens all the jolts of life.

Self-conceit is a great source of happiness, a buffer that softens all the jolts of life.

"Why, of what may I be sure in this shifting world if not of myself?" "Our elders, Manuel, declare that such self-conceit is a fault, and our elders, they say, are wiser than we.

That may seem a strange saying, considering that self-conceit is the vice of all others to which man is most given; the first sin, and the last sin, and that which is said to be the most difficult to cure.

Silly conceit is the death-blow to higher attainments and to all charm.

And these deep sorrows, which my vain conceit Calls chasteningsmeant for memy ailments' cure Were lessons for some angels far away, And I the corpus vile for the experiment?

The conceit of one of these men is the most colossal specimen of psychological architecture in existence.

"My conceit of his person,"it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon,"was never increased towards him by his place or honours.

He said, 'the collection called The Muses' Welcome to King James, (first of England, and sixth of Scotland,) on his return to his native kingdom, shewed that there was then abundance of learning in Scotland; and that the conceits in that collection, with which people find fault, were mere mode.'

"The word conceit," she thought, "is imbecile in this case.